Key facts
- Constellation
- Corvus
- Right ascension
- 11 59 30.2
- Declination
- −19 ° 15 ′ 55 ″
- Redshift
- 1671 ± 6 km/ s
- Distance
- 83 M ly , (25.6 M pc )
- Type
- SB(s)dm
- Apparent size v
- 3'.2 × 2'.4
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Corvus
- Distance from Earth
- 23.83
- Image
- NGC 4027.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 1672
- catalog code
- [VDD93] 144
- Commons category
- NGC 4027
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-02-07
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 8.496
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- SBd
- right ascension
- 179.8757000
- declination
- -19.2651722
- redshift
- 0.005574
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4027 (also known as Arp 22) is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 83 million light-years away in the constellation Corvus. It is also a peculiar galaxy because one of its spiral arms goes out more than the other. This is probably due to a galactic collision in NGC 4027's past.
One supernova has been observed in NGC 4027: SN 1996W (Type II, mag. 16) was discovered by the BAO Supernova Survey on 10 April 1996.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q141691” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.