Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 40 57.5
- Declination
- 11 ° 54 ′ 44 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1640 km/s
- Distance
- 53.3 Mly (16.35 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- Sa
- Size
- ~51,400 ly (15.75 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.2 x 1.6
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 19.70
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4606.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 42516
- radial velocity
- 1698
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-03-15
- apparent magnitude
- 9.169
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
- redshift
- 0.00568
- Commons category
- NGC 4606
- right ascension
- 190.2398208
- declination
- 11.9121861
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4606 is a spiral galaxy located about 55 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. NGC 4606 was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on March 15, 1784. It has a disturbed stellar disk suggesting the actions of gravitational interactions. NGC 4607 may be a possible companion of NGC 4606. However, their redshifts differ by about 600 km/s, making it unlikely that they are a gravitationally bound pair. NGC 4606 is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4606” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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