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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Boötes
Right ascension
14 19 12.792
Declination
+24 ° 47 ′ 55.01 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
5103 ± 3 km/s
Distance
252.1 Mly (77.30 Mpc )
Type
SBb

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Boötes
Distance from Earth
77.30
Image
NGC5559 - HST - Potw1736a.tif
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catalog code
[SLK2004] 984
redshift
0.017232
time of discovery or invention
1785-04-10
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
galaxy morphological type
3
apparent magnitude
12.808
radial velocity
5103
Commons category
NGC 5559
right ascension
214.8033000
declination
24.7986139
epoch
J2000.0

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 5559 is a barred spiral galaxy, located 240 million light-years away in the constellation of Boötes. It was discovered on April 10, 1785, by the astronomer William Herschel.

In 2001, a type Ib supernova was detected within NGC 5559, and was subsequently designated SN 2001co. However, in 2003, the supernova was identified as a calcium-rich supernova, as it had strong spectral lines characteristic of calcium. The progenitors of these calcium-rich supernovae are still a mystery.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5559” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.