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.
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