Key facts
- Constellation
- Leo
- Right ascension
- 11 02 47.307
- Declination
- +17 ° 59 ′ 22.31 ″
- Distance
- 77.02 ± 6.06 Mly (23.615 ± 1.857 Mpc )
- Type
- Scd:
- Mass
- 1.5 × 10 M ☉
- Size
- 89,600 ly (27,480 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 4.4′ × 0.56′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Leo
- Distance from Earth
- 14.58
- Image
- A slice of stars.jpg
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- declination
- 17.9895306
- catalog code
- LEDA 33343
- galaxy morphological type
- Scd
- Commons category
- NGC 3501
- discoverer or inventor
- Édouard Stephan
- time of discovery or invention
- 1881-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 9.408
- redshift
- 0.003773
- right ascension
- 165.6971125
- radial velocity
- 1130
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3501 is an edge-on spiral galaxy 80 million light years away, located in the constellation Leo. It was discovered on 23 April 1881 by French astronomer Édouard Stephan. NGC 3501 is a young galaxy, consisting mostly of stars aged between 2 and 8 billion years.
NGC 3501 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2014, showing an edge-on spiral galaxy; its companion NGC 3507 is not included in the photograph. It is a member of the NGC 3607 Group of galaxies, which is a member of the Leo II Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the right edge of the Virgo Supercluster.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3501” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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