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Vinony's link graph records 277 inbound references to NGC 7002, and connects out to list of stars in Indus, Indus and epoch.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1834, Elliptical galaxies and Indus (constellation).
Vinony links it to 29 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Indus
- Right ascension
- 21 03 44.8
- Declination
- −49 ° 01 ′ 47 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7351 km/s
- Distance
- 319 Mly (97.9 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude b
- -23.35 ± 0.58
- Type
- E1 pec
- Size
- ~175,000 ly (53.66 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.5 × 1.2
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Distance from Earth
- 102.85
- Image
- NGC 7002.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E
- catalog code
- APMBGC 235-003-048
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-09-30
- apparent magnitude
- 9.479
- redshift
- 0.024520
- Commons category
- NGC 7002
- right ascension
- 315.9365833
- declination
- -49.0297750
- radial velocity
- 7351
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7002 is a large elliptical galaxy, and a radio galaxy, around 320 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Indus. The galaxy was discovered by English astronomer John Herschel on September 30, 1834. NGC 7002 is the brightest member of a group of galaxies known as [T2015] nest 200093. The group contains 12 member galaxies including NGC 7004, has a velocity dispersion of 440 km/s and an estimated mass of 1.28 × 10 M☉. NGC 7002 is also host to a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of 2.7 × 10 M☉.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7002” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.