NGC 772

NGC 772
NGC 772 with its interacting dwarf elliptical partner, NGC 770 located almost directly above NGC 772.
Observation data
Constellation	Aries
Right ascension	01h 59m 19.6s
Declination	+19° 00′ 27″
Distance	130 Mly
Characteristics
Type	SA(s)b
Size	11.1
Apparent size (V)	7′.2 × 4′.3
Miscellaneous Info
Other names	UGC 1466, PGC 7525, Arp 78

NGC 772 (also known as Arp 78) is an unbarred spiral galaxy approximately 130 million light-years away in the constellation Aries. It's located some 130 million light-years away in the constellation Aries and is moving away from Earth at 2472 kilometers per second.

Characteristics

NGC 772 is about twice the size of the Milky Way Galaxy and is surronded by satellite galaxies which caused one of NGC 772's arm to be disorted and disrupted by NGC 770, one of the galaxies. Two supernovae (SN 2003hl and SN 2003iq) have been observed in NGC 772, both of them as Type II supernova.