Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 39 39.4
- Declination
- −05 ° 20 ′ 39 ″
- Redshift
- 0.008312 ± 0.000020
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2,492 ± 6 km / s
- Distance
- 120 ± 57 Mly (34.3 ± 16.8 Mpc )
- Type
- (R)SB(rs)b
- Apparent size v
- 3.9 ′ × 2.9 ′
- Notable features
- Seyfert galaxy
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 44.0
- Image
- NGC 4593 HST.png
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- galaxy morphological type
- Sb
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3680062978626164096
- Commons category
- NGC 4593
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 7.985
- right ascension
- 189.91434813382430
- declination
- -5.34417639669970
- redshift
- 0.0087
- radial velocity
- 2491
- epoch
- J2000.0
- right ascension component of proper motion
- -0.009
- declination component of proper motion
- 0.033
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4593 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo. It is located at a distance of about 120 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 4593 is about 125,000 light years across.
It was discovered by William Herschel on April 17, 1784. It is a Seyfert galaxy.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4593” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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