Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Right ascension
- 11 44 52.2
- Declination
- 19 ° 27 ′ 15 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5468 km/s
- Distance
- 295 Mly (90.4 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Leo Cluster
- Type
- S? pec
- Size
- ~135,000 ly (41.5 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.2 x 0.3
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Leo
- Distance from Earth
- 80.81
- Image
- NGC3859 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- catalog code
- SDSS J114452.23+192715.0
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1884-03-23
- apparent magnitude
- 11.134
- redshift
- 0.018239
- Commons category
- NGC 3859
- right ascension
- 176.21759920916550
- declination
- 19.45424243784740
- radial velocity
- 5418
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- Sp
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3859 is a spiral galaxy located about 295 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by astronomer Édouard Stephan on March 23, 1884. The galaxy is a member of the Leo Cluster.
Physical characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3859” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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