Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 35 37.9
- Declination
- 12 ° 15 ′ 50 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1176 km/s
- Distance
- 67 Mly
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- E2
- Size
- ~29,340 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.8 x 1.4
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4551 is an elliptical galaxy located about 70 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 17, 1784. NGC 4551 appears to lie close to the lenticular galaxy NGC 4550. However, both galaxies show no sign of interaction and have different red shifts. Both galaxies are also members of the Virgo Cluster.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1112461” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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