Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 33 39.7
- Declination
- 09 ° 10 ′ 30 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2329 km/s
- Distance
- 56.4 Mly
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- SB(s)cd
- Size
- ~68,850 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.95 x 0.84
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4522 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located about 60 million light-years away within the Virgo Cluster in the constellation Virgo. NGC 4522 is losing its molecular gas though ram-pressure stripping as it plows though the cluster at a speed of more than 10 million kilometres per hour. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer John Herschel on January 18, 1828.
Ram-pressure stripping
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