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- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 16,952 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.00401
- Morphology
- SA
- Coordinates
- RA 185.6804° · Dec 8.1983°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 22 43.3
- Declination
- 08 ° 11 ′ 54 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1231 km/s
- Distance
- 72 Mly (22 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Virgo W′ group
- Type
- S0
- Mass
- 7.2 × 10 M ☉
- Size
- ~22,000 ly (6.7 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 0.84 x 0.69
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 19.59
- Image
- NGC 4318 imaged by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.png
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- catalog code
- LEDA 40122
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1828-01-18
- apparent magnitude
- 12.426
- redshift
- 0.00403
- galaxy morphological type
- E-E/S0
- Commons category
- NGC 4318
- right ascension
- 185.6804208
- declination
- 8.1983667
- radial velocity
- 1206
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4318 is a small lenticular galaxy located about 72 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on January 18, 1828. NGC 4318 is a member of the Virgo W′ group, a group of galaxies in the background of the Virgo Cluster that is centered on the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4365.
Physical characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4318” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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