Key facts
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Right ascension
- 13 34 02.9
- Declination
- +44 ° 02 ′ 17 ″
- Redshift
- +363/+461 km/s
- Distance
- 5.13 / 7.28 Mpc , (16.7 / 23.7 million ly )
- Type
- SB(s)d
- Apparent size v
- 3.58′ × 0.45'
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- low-surface-brightness galaxy
- Constellation
- Canes Venatici
- Distance from Earth
- 10.7
- Image
- NGC 5229 GALEX.jpg
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- catalog code
- RFGC 2594
- redshift
- 0.001214
- Commons category
- NGC 5229
- time of discovery or invention
- 1886-01-01
- discoverer or inventor
- Lewis A. Swift
- galaxy morphological type
- Sd
- apparent magnitude
- 13.31
- right ascension
- 203.5117958
- declination
- 47.9154667
- radial velocity
- 364
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5229 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is a member of the M51 Group although in reality it is relatively isolated from other galaxies. The galaxy's disc is somewhat warped and appears to consist of a series of interconnected clusters of stars from our vantage point on Earth. It is approximately 7 kiloparsecs (23,000 light-years) in diameter and is about 13.7 billion years old.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q782529” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.