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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Coma Berenices
Right ascension
12 05 51.4
Declination
20 ° 31 ′ 19 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
7206 km/s
Distance
340 Mly (103 Mpc )
Group or cluster
NGC 4065 Group
Type
E?
Size
~116,000 ly (35.5 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
0.25 x 0.25

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4093 is an elliptical galaxy located 340 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest on May 4, 1864. NGC 4093 is a member of the NGC 4065 Group and is a radio galaxy with a two sided jet.

A rotating disk in the galaxy was detected by K. Geréb et al.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4093” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.