Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Distance
- 80,732 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.0016
- Morphology
- dSA
- Coordinates
- RA 185.8335° · Dec 15.8204°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 23 20.0
- Declination
- 15 ° 49 ′ 13 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 484 km/s
- Distance
- 48.4 Mly (14.84 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster (A subgroup)
- Type
- dE1 N, SA0-
- Mass
- 2.7 × 10 (Stellar mass)/5.6 × 10 (Total Mass) M ☉
- Size
- ~32,000 ly (9.81 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.22 × 0.98
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4328 is a nucleated dwarf elliptical or lenticular galaxy located about 48 million light-years away based on observations by the Hubble Space Telescope using the TRGB distance indicator. NGC 4328 was discovered on March 21, 1784 by astronomer William Herschel and is a member of the Virgo Cluster in the "A'' subgroup. On the sky, NGC 4328 is located in the constellation Coma Berenices.
NGC 4328 is a companion of Messier 100, along with NGC 4323 and lies 78,000 light-years (24 kiloparsecs) from Messier 100. A possible passage of NGC 4328 close to Messier 100, may explain the lopsidedness in the southwestern portion of Messier 100. However, there are no strong signs of interactions in the H I distribution of Messier 100 which may be due to an interaction between the two galaxies. Despite this, recent observations are too shallow to detect tidal streams in the H I distribution of Messier 100 caused by a possible interaction between the two galaxies.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1110745” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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