NGC 7014
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It is catalogued under topics including Abell 3742, Astronomical objects discovered in 1834 and Elliptical galaxies.
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Indus
- Right ascension
- 21 07 52.2
- Declination
- −47 ° 10 ′ 44 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4,857 km/s
- Distance
- 208 Mly (63.8 Mpc )
- Absolute magnitude b
- -22.72 ± 0.37
- Type
- E
- Mass
- 9.6 × 10 (Stellar mass) 6.52 × 10 (Total Mass) M ☉
- Size
- ~132,900 ly (40.74 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 1.9 x 1.5
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Indus
- Distance from Earth
- 88.20
- Image
- NGC 7013.jpg
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- declination
- -47.1790361
- catalog code
- APMBGC 286-042+125
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-10-02
- apparent magnitude
- 9.151
- galaxy morphological type
- E/S0
- redshift
- 0.015891
- right ascension
- 316.9674375
- radial velocity
- 4790
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 7014
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 7014 is an elliptical galaxy located about 210 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Indus. NGC 7014 was discovered by English astronomer John Herschel on October 2, 1834. A population of around 1,634 known globular clusters surround the galaxy, and it is also host to a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of 2.6 billion M☉. NGC 7014 is also classified as a type 1 seyfert galaxy.
Group membership
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 7014” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.