Key facts
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Right ascension
- 21 04 39.5
- Declination
- −12 ° 20 ′ 18 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 8,486 km/s
- Distance
- 370 Mly (112 Mpc )
- Type
- E+ pec
- Size
- ~224,600 ly (68.86 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.9 x 1.0
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Aquarius
- Distance from Earth
- 118.17
- Image
- SDSS NGC 7010.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 8515
- epoch
- J2000.0
- time of discovery or invention
- 1823-08-06
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- catalog code
- LEDA 66039
- apparent magnitude
- 9.777
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- right ascension
- 316.1644917
- declination
- -12.3383472
- Commons category
- NGC 7010
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7010 is a massive elliptical galaxy located about 370 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Aquarius. NGC 7010 was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on August 6, 1823, and was later listed by French astronomer Guillaume Bigourdan as IC 5082. It is host to a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of 4.7 × 10 M☉.
Physical characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7010” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.