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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Hydra
Right ascension
08 40 44.3818
Declination
−04 ° 07 ′ 18.011 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4339 ± 5 km/s
Distance
222.8 ± 15.6 Mly (68.32 ± 4.79 Mpc )
Type
SB(r)bc
Size
~140,800 ly (43.17 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
2.0′ × 1.8′

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Hydra
Distance from Earth
62.70
Image
NGC 2642 SDSS.jpg
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 5761747972464458240
discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1830-02-19
apparent magnitude
12.277
radial velocity
4347.0
galaxy morphological type
Sbc
Commons category
NGC 2642
right ascension
130.18489557076220
declination
-4.12167964242070
redshift
0.014483
epoch
J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 2642 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Hydra. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 4632 ± 21 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 68.32 ± 4.79 Mpc (~223 million light-years). It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 19 February 1830.

According to the SIMBAD database, NGC 2642 is a Seyfert I galaxy, i.e. it has a quasar-like nuclei with very high surface brightnesses whose spectra reveal strong, high-ionisation emission lines, but unlike quasars, the host galaxy is clearly detectable.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2642” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.