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galaxy

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiP
Redshift
z = 0.01115
Coordinates
RA 224.7485° · Dec 53.9233°
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Key facts

Constellation
Boötes
Right ascension
14 58 59.722
Declination
+53 ° 55 ′ 23.41 ″
Redshift
0.011 261 ± 0.000 037 km/ s
Distance
169.2 Mly (51.89 Mpc )
Type
Sc
Apparent size v
1.31′ × 0.70′

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Boötes
Distance from Earth
51.89
Image
NGC5821 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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galaxy morphological type
S0
catalog code
SDSS J145859.66+535523.7
time of discovery or invention
1789-04-24
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
redshift
0.011261
apparent magnitude
10.642
right ascension
224.7488417
declination
53.9231694
radial velocity
3539
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 5821
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 5821 is a spiral galaxy with a ring structure in the constellation Boötes. It lies near a similarly massed galaxy, NGC 5820, at the same redshift. Both galaxies were discovered by the astronomer William Herschel.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5821” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.