NGC 5010
Sign in to savelenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo
Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 13 12 26.3
- Declination
- −15 ° 47 ′ 52 ″
- Redshift
- 0.021581 , 2975 ± 27 km/ s
- Distance
- 140 Mly
- Type
- S0 pec sp
- Apparent size v
- 1.3 ′ × 0.6 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 92.48
- Image
- NGC 5010.jpg
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- catalog code
- LEDA 45868
- Commons category
- NGC 5010
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1831-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 9.338
- right ascension
- 198.1097125
- declination
- -15.7979556
- radial velocity
- 2947.6
- redshift
- 0.009680
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5010 is a lenticular galaxy located about 140 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by John Herschel on May 9, 1831. It is considered a Luminous Infrared Galaxy (LIRG). As the galaxy has few young blue stars and mostly red old stars and dust, it is transitioning from being a spiral galaxy to being an elliptical galaxy, with its spiral arms having burned out and become dusty arms. From the perspective of Earth, the galaxy is facing nearly edge-on.
See also
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