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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.0035353574644803043
Morphology
S
Coordinates
RA 185.5234° · Dec 9.0436°
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Key facts

Constellation
Virgo
Right ascension
12 22 05.7
Declination
09 ° 02 ′ 37 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
1092 km/s
Distance
65 Mly (20 Mpc )
Group or cluster
Virgo Cluster
Type
Sb
Size
~95,000 ly (29 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
3.59 x 0.82

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4307 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located about 65 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by astronomer Christian Peters in 1881 and is a member of the Virgo Cluster. It is also a LINER galaxy.

On March 7, 2019 a supernova of an unknown type known as AT 2019bpt was discovered in NGC 4307.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4307” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.