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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Canes Venatici
Right ascension
12 41 59.7
Declination
+32 ° 34 ′ 25 ″
Redshift
542 ± 16 km/ s
Distance
30.3 Mly
Type
E4 pec
Apparent size v
2.6 ′ × 1.8 ′

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4627 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. The galaxy lies about 30 million light years away from Earth. NGC 4627 is located 3 arcminutes northwest of the nucleus of NGC 4631, a spiral galaxy which interacts with it.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4627” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.