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Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.0019079866245334297
- Coordinates
- RA 202.4983° · Dec 47.2661°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Right ascension
- 13 29 59.6
- Declination
- +47 ° 15 ′ 58 ″
- Redshift
- 465 ± 10 km/ s
- Distance
- 25 ± 3 Mly (7.7 ± 1.0 Mpc )
- Type
- Amorphous or SB0 pec
- Size
- 59,500 ly (18.24 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 5′.8 × 4′.6
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Part of
- Whirlpool Galaxy
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Distance from Earth
- 7.7
- Image
- Messier51.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 47413
- time of discovery or invention
- 1781-03-21
- discoverer or inventor
- Pierre Méchain
- apparent magnitude
- 6.251
- right ascension
- 202.498292
- declination
- 47.2661278
- redshift
- 0.001551
- radial velocity
- 527
- galaxy morphological type
- SB0
- Commons category
- NGC 5195
- different from
- Whirlpool Galaxy
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5195 (also known as Messier 51b or M51b) is a dwarf galaxy that is interacting with the Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as M51a or NGC 5194). Both galaxies are located approximately 25 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. Together, the two galaxies are one of the most famous interacting galaxy pairs.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5195” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.