Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 10 19 33.0275
- Declination
- +58 ° 12 ′ 20.829 ″
- Redshift
- 0.007003 ± 0.000005
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2,099 ± 1 km/ s
- Distance
- 112 ± 7.8 Mly (34.2 ± 2.4 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(r)a?
- Size
- ~54,000 ly (16.6 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.53 ′ × 1.22 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance from Earth
- 34.0
- Image
- NGC 3182 SDSS.jpg
Show 11 more facts
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1047368701874292096
- declination
- 58.20571757585930
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1793-04-08
- apparent magnitude
- 11.685
- right ascension
- 154.88759826198320
- galaxy morphological type
- Egas
- Commons category
- NGC 3182
- redshift
- 0.007105
- radial velocity
- 2109
- epoch
- J2000.0
via Wikidata · CC0
~2 min read
Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3182 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy lies about 110 million light years away from Earth, which means, given its apparent dimensions, that NGC 3182 is approximately 55,000 light years across. It was discovered by William Herschel on April 8, 1793.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3182” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
Available in 28 languages
- Français
- Deutsch
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- العربية
- Azerbaijani
- Basque
- Belarusian
- Bosnian
- Chechen
- Croatian
- Egyptian Arabic
- Esperanto
- Kazakh
- Macedonian
- Nederlands
- Polski
via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0