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 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
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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.
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