Key facts
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Right ascension
- 14 20 26.484
- Declination
- +35 ° 11 ′ 19.66 ″
- Redshift
- 0.01199 ± 0.00001
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3,608 km/s
- Distance
- 179 ± 14 Mly (54.9 ± 4.3 Mpc )
- Type
- SABcd
- Apparent size v
- 1.22′ × 0.93′
- Notable features
- Singular, disturbed
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Boötes
- Image
- SDSS NGC 5579.png
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1480671631492570240
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-05-01
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- galaxy morphological type
- 7
- apparent magnitude
- 13.275
- radial velocity
- 3573
- Commons category
- NGC 5579
- right ascension
- 215.11052852274710
- declination
- 35.18863998141910
- redshift
- 0.012015
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5579 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Boötes. It was discovered on May 1, 1785) by German-British astronomer William Herschel. The galaxy is located at a distance of 179 ± 14 million light-years (54.9 ± 4.3 Mpc) from the Milky Way, and is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 3,608 km/s. It is entry 69 in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies.
NGC 5579 with Hubble On Dec. 17, 2006, a supernova designated SN 2006ss was discovered 22.7″ north and 11.9″ east of the galactic center. It was determined to be a type IIb supernova based on the spectrum.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5579” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.