Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- LIN
- Redshift
- z = 0.01621
- Morphology
- SB
- Coordinates
- RA 238.2334° · Dec 21.1005°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Serpens
- Right ascension
- 15 52 56.0543
- Declination
- +21 ° 06 ′ 01.819 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4859 ± 3 km/s
- Distance
- 238.6 ± 16.7 Mly (73.15 ± 5.12 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 6052 group (LGG 403)
- Type
- SB(r)b
- Size
- ~168,700 ly (51.72 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.4′ × 1.3′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Serpens
- Image
- NGC6008 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 4831
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1204558766832567552
- right ascension
- 238.23342894570610
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- declination
- 21.10051485252740
- time of discovery or invention
- 1880-06-10
- redshift
- 0.016241
- galaxy morphological type
- 4
- apparent magnitude
- 12.275
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 6008
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 6008 (sometimes referred to as NGC 6008A) is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Serpens. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 4,959 ± 8 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 73.2 ± 5.1 Mpc (~239 million light-years). It was discovered by French astronomer Édouard Stephan on 10 June 1880.
NGC 6008 is a LINER galaxy, i.e. a galaxy whose nucleus has an emission spectrum characterized by broad lines of weakly ionized atoms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 6008” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.