Key facts
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Right ascension
- 13 58 38.0
- Declination
- +37 ° 25 ′ 28 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3511 ± 10 km/s
- Distance
- 176.8 Mly (54.22 Mpc )
- Type
- SA(s)b pec
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Distance from Earth
- 54.22
- Image
- NGC5394, NGC5395 - Noirlab1912a.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 5395
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 1495767994861425536
- radial velocity
- 3451
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-05-16
- apparent magnitude
- 11.300
- galaxy morphological type
- 3
- right ascension
- 209.65817991500050
- declination
- 37.42449657562440
- redshift
- 0.011645
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5395 is an interacting spiral galaxy located at a distance of 160 million light years, but receding away from the Earth at 3511 kilometers (2181.6 miles) per second, in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by William Herschel on May 16, 1787. NGC 5395 and NGC 5394 are included in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 84 in the category "Spiral galaxies with large high surface brightness companions".
NGC 5395 is the larger spiral galaxy interacting with smaller barred spiral galaxy, NGC 5394. NGC 5395 is nearly face-on, with a diameter of around 140,000 light-years across. NGC 5395 has a bright central region and is distorted due to the interaction with NGC 5394. The larger of the two rings around the galaxy forms a ring off the center of the galaxy. Dust lanes can be seen throughout the galaxy.
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