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
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Indus
- Distance from Earth
- 102.85
- Image
- NGC 7002.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E
- catalog code
- APMBGC 235-003-048
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- 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
- epoch
- J2000.0
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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.