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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Coma Berenices
Right ascension
12 05 50.1
Declination
20 ° 28 ′ 37 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
6719 km/s
Distance
310 Mly (96 Mpc )
Group or cluster
NGC 4065 Group
Type
Sa
Size
~100,000 ly (32 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
1.0 x 1.0

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Coma Berenices
Distance from Earth
98.24
Image
SDSS NGC 4092.jpg
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right ascension
181.45862816844600
declination
20.47698697562420
catalog code
Gaia DR2 3951337515382586240
redshift
0.022412
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1785-04-26
apparent magnitude
14.817
radial velocity
6667
galaxy morphological type
S
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 4092
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4092 is a spiral galaxy located 310 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on May 2, 1864. NGC 4092 is a member of the NGC 4065 Group and hosts an AGN.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4092” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.