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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Coma Berenices
Right ascension
12 04 32.5192
Declination
20 ° 12 ′ 18.084 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
6204 km/s
Distance
313.9 ± 22.0 Mly (96.23 ± 6.74 Mpc )
Group or cluster
NGC 4065 Group
Type
Sa
Size
~103,000 ly (31.6 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
0.9′ × 0.9′

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Coma Berenices
Distance from Earth
91.25
Image
SDSS NGC 4076.jpg
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catalog code
Gaia DR2 3951304014637646464
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1785-04-27
apparent magnitude
12.316
redshift
0.020713
galaxy morphological type
Sbc
right ascension
181.13551952808500
declination
20.20496923205600
radial velocity
6139
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 4076
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4076 is a spiral galaxy located about 314 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 27, 1785 and is a member of the NGC 4065 Group.

NGC 4076 is classified as a LINER galaxy.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4076” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.