NGC 3552
Sign in to savelenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 11 10 42.843
- Declination
- +28 ° 41 ′ 34.82 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 9779 km/s
- Group or cluster
- Abell 1185
- Type
- E-S0
- Size
- ~134,000 ly (41.09 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.7′ × 0.7′
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Wikidata facts
- Image
- NGC3552 NGC3553 NGC3554 - SDSS DR14.png
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- radial velocity
- 9779
- catalog code
- LEDA 33932
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-04-11
- apparent magnitude
- 13.019
- Commons category
- NGC 3552
- right ascension
- 167.6785125
- declination
- 28.6930056
- redshift
- 0.033316
- galaxy morphological type
- -4.9
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NGC 3552 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered on April 11, 1785 by William Herschel. It is a member of the galaxy cluster Abell 1185.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 3552: SN 2025fxi (type Ia, mag. 17.756) was discovered by ATLAS on March 27, 2025.
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