Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 13 13 01.000
- Declination
- −19 ° 31 ′ 05.87 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 2809 km/s
- Distance
- 132.51 M ly
- Type
- S...
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 40.42
- Image
- NGC 5018 Hubble WikiSky.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 45908
- Commons category
- NGC 5018
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-04-08
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 7.734
- radial velocity
- 2586
- galaxy morphological type
- S...
- redshift
- 0.009413
- right ascension
- 198.2541667
- declination
- -19.5182972
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5018 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation of Virgo at an approximate distance of 132.51 Mly. NGC 5018 was discovered in 1788 by William Herschel.
Supernovae
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1116414” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.