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Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 43 40.008
- Declination
- +11 ° 33 ′ 09.40 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1,108 km/s
- Distance
- 56.7 Mly (17.38 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- E1.5 or S0
- Apparent size v
- 7.4 ′ × 6.0 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- astronomical radio source
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 14.9
- Radius
- 60000
- Image
- Arp116 Hubble.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.004713
- catalog code
- [SMM2006b] J124339.98+113309.6
- Commons category
- Messier 60
- galaxy morphological type
- S0
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- Messier 60
- discoverer or inventor
- Johann Gottfried Koehler
- time of discovery or invention
- 1779-04-11
- apparent magnitude
- 10.502
- absolute magnitude
- -22.3
- right ascension
- 190.916667
- declination
- 11.552778
- radial velocity
- 1015
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
Messier 60 or M60, also known as NGC 4649, is an elliptical galaxy approximately 57 million light-years away in the equatorial constellation of Virgo. Together with NGC 4647, it forms a pair known as Arp 116. Messier 60 and nearby elliptical galaxy Messier 59 were discovered by Johann Gottfried Koehler in April 1779, observing a comet in the same part of the sky. Charles Messier added both to his catalogue about three days after this.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Messier 60” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.