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galaxy

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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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.