Q1115151

type-cD galaxy

Key facts

Constellation: Coma Berenices
Right ascension: 12 59 35.709
Declination: +27 ° 57 ′ 33.80 ″
Redshift: 0.023 907 ± 0.000 006 67
Heliocentric radial velocity: 7,167 ± 2 km/s
Distance: 315.73 ± 6.41 Mly (96.804 ± 1.966 Mpc )
Group or cluster: Coma Cluster
Type: cD; Di
Size: 79.792 to 82.79 kpc (260,250 to 270,020 ly ), (diameter; D 25.0 B-band and 2MASS K-band total isophotes
Apparent size v: 1.9 ′ × 1.9 ′

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Distance from Earth: 104.85
Image: Ssc2007-10a1.jpg

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catalog code: [HVH2010] Comai J125935.698+275733.36
Commons category: NGC 4874
time of discovery or invention: 1864-05-05
apparent magnitude: 14.667
redshift: 0.02409
galaxy morphological type: E0A
right ascension: 194.8987875
declination: 27.9593889
radial velocity: 7082

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NGC 4874 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered on 11 April 1785 by German-British astronomer William Herschel, who catalogued it as a bright patch of nebulous feature. The second-brightest galaxy within the northern Coma Cluster, it is located at a distance of about 97 megaparsecs (316,000,000 light-years) from Earth.

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