Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Andromeda (And)  ·  Contains:  NGC 68  ·  NGC 70  ·  NGC 71  ·  NGC 72  ·  NGC 74  ·  NGC 76
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NGC 70 Group of Galaxies (VV 166, Arp 113), Earle Waghorne
NGC 70 Group of Galaxies (VV 166, Arp 113)
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NGC 70 Group of Galaxies (VV 166, Arp 113)

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NGC 70 Group of Galaxies (VV 166, Arp 113), Earle Waghorne
NGC 70 Group of Galaxies (VV 166, Arp 113)
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NGC 70 Group of Galaxies (VV 166, Arp 113)

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This compact group of galaxies was first discovered in 1784 by William Herschel who believed that they were a single object; in the 1880s, John Louis Emil Dreyer managed to discern some of the galaxies in this region and cataloged them. NGC 68, the brightest of the galaxies, has a different red sift and shows no gravitational changes and so probably isn't a true member of the group. NGC 70 is 320-325 million light years from Earth, so the light that formed the image left the galaxies before the age of the dinosaurs. [1,2]

[1] https://www.deepskycorner.ch/obj/ngc70.en.php
[2]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_68_group

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NGC 70 Group of Galaxies (VV 166, Arp 113), Earle Waghorne