Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Right ascension
- 11 46 12.1878
- Declination
- +20 ° 23 ′ 30.023 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 6932 ± 2 km/s
- Distance
- 334.80 ± 31.76 Mly (102.650 ± 9.738 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Leo Cluster
- Type
- SA(r)0/a, LINER
- Size
- ~243,500 ly (74.65 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.64′ × 1.10′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Leo
- Distance from Earth
- 101.23
- Image
- SDSS NGC 3884.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3976410572383792000
- redshift
- 0.023253
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-04-27
- apparent magnitude
- 11.894
- radial velocity
- 6854
- Commons category
- NGC 3884
- right ascension
- 176.55075659354140
- declination
- 20.39164340177480
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- S...
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3884 is a spiral galaxy located about 330 million light-years away in the constellation Leo. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 27, 1785 and is a member of the Leo Cluster.
Although it is classified as a LINER galaxy, NGC 3884 is also classified as a type 1 Seyfert galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3884” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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