Key facts
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Right ascension
- 13 34 43.8
- Declination
- +51 ° 36 ′ 33 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 229 km/s
- Distance
- 4.51 Mpc
- Type
- Irr
- Mass
- 1.17 × 10 M ☉
- Mass light ratio
- 0.6 M ☉ / L ☉
- Apparent size v
- 64.4"
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5238 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. Located at a comoving distance of 4.51 Mpc, it is 64.4 arcseconds in diameter. It has sometimes been classified as a blue compact dwarf galaxy. Although some authors have hypothesized it to be a member of the M101 Group of galaxies, it is currently believed to be an isolated galaxy.
At an inclination of 39° with respect to Earth, NGC 5238 has a total mass of 117 million solar masses, with a star formation rate of 0.01 solar masses per year. Of the total mass, HI gas appears to account for 26 million solar masses.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5238” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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