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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Leo
Right ascension
11 45 29.6
Declination
19 ° 24 ′ 01 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
7520 km/s
Distance
350 Mly (107 Mpc )
Group or cluster
Leo Cluster
Type
Sab
Size
~170,000 ly (51 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
1.5 x 0.6

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3867 is a spiral galaxy located about 350 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on 23 March 1884, and is a member of the Leo Cluster.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3867” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.