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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Coma Berenices
Right ascension
12 32 10.5
Declination
13 ° 25 ′ 11 ″
Redshift
0.002458/737 km/s
Distance
47.6 Mly
Group or cluster
Virgo Cluster
Type
Sa pec
Size
~26,000 ly (estimated)
Apparent size v
1.79 x 1.06

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Coma Berenices
Distance from Earth
19.22
Image
SDSS NGC 4506.jpeg
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galaxy morphological type
SBa
Commons category
NGC 4506
catalog code
Gaia DR2 3931990921096953344
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1787-01-14
apparent magnitude
12.403
right ascension
188.04384157264100
declination
13.41967482211960
parallax
0.6378
radial velocity
509
redshift
0.00170
epoch
J2000.0
right ascension component of proper motion
1.789
declination component of proper motion
0.450
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4506 is a spiral galaxy located around 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is classified as peculiar due to the presence of dust that surrounds its nucleus. NGC 4506 was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on January 14, 1787. It is a member of the Virgo Cluster.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4506” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.