Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 13 20 24.9
- Declination
- −20 ° 36 ′ 40 ″
- Redshift
- 1832 ± 56 km/ s
- Type
- E
- Apparent size v
- 2.3 ′ × 1.7 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- active galactic nucleus
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 28.60
- Image
- G066 127 006009.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.006098
- catalog code
- RX J132027-20361
- galaxy morphological type
- E
- Commons category
- NGC 5087
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-04-08
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 7.815
- right ascension
- 200.1040042
- declination
- -20.6110278
- radial velocity
- 1823
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5087 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered on April 8, 1788 by the astronomer William Herschel. It is a member of the NGC 5084 Group of galaxies, which is a member of the Virgo II Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the southern edge of the Virgo Supercluster.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5087” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.