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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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 19.31
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4551.jpeg
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- redshift
- 0.00393
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- catalog code
- LEDA 41963
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-04-17
- apparent magnitude
- 8.872
- galaxy morphological type
- E-E/S0
- Commons category
- NGC 4551
- right ascension
- 188.9082500
- declination
- 12.2640111
- radial velocity
- 1176
- epoch
- J2000.0
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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.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1112461” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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