Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Distance
- 12,652 light-years
- Redshift
- z = 0.01035705
- Morphology
- SAB
- Coordinates
- RA 187.8424° · Dec 57.9646°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 12 31 22.15431
- Declination
- +57 ° 57 ′ 52.6226 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3280 km/s
- Distance
- 157.5 Mly (48.30 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(s)a
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance from Earth
- 51.0
- Image
- NGC 4500 hst 06633 R814G555B450.png
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- catalog code
- LEDA 41436
- radial velocity
- 3280
- Commons category
- NGC 4500
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1789-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 9.745
- galaxy morphological type
- 3
- right ascension
- 187.84230962108920
- declination
- 57.96461738813360
- redshift
- 0.010504
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4500 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy was discovered on April 17, 1789 by William Herschel. It is a blue compact galaxy.
Its distance from Earth is approximately 50 million parsecs.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4500” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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