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Constellation
Coma Berenices
Right ascension
12 01 10.382
Declination
+14 ° 06 ′ 16.25 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
1528 km/s
Distance
60.3 ± 4.9 Mly (18.5 ± 1.5 Mpc )
Group or cluster
Virgo Cluster
Type
SBb? edge-on

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Distance from Earth
25.5
Image
IC 755 HST.jpg
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catalog code
LEDA 37912
Commons category
NGC 4019
time of discovery or invention
1832-04-23
apparent magnitude
11.334
galaxy morphological type
SBdm
redshift
0.005027
right ascension
180.2932583
declination
14.1045139
radial velocity
1528
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IC 755, also known as NGC 4019, is a barred spiral galaxy. It lies about 60 million light-years away (18 Megaparsecs) in the northern constellation of Coma Berenices. It is a member of the Virgo Cluster.

In 1999 a star within IC 755 was seen to explode as a supernova and named SN 1999an. Supernovae like SN 1999an are classified as Type II and they are dramatic events that mark the end of the lives of massive stars. The supernova was discovered by the Beijing Astronomical Observatory Supernova Survey.

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