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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Leo
Right ascension
10 47 42.4
Declination
+13 ° 59 ′ 08 ″
Redshift
0.002218 ± 0.000008
Distance
11.2 Mpc
Type
E5
Apparent size v
5′.2 × 3′.0

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Leo
Distance from Earth
7.19
Image
NGC 3377 Hubble WikiSky.jpg
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catalog code
LEDA 32249
Commons category
NGC 3377
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1784-04-08
apparent magnitude
7.441
galaxy morphological type
E
right ascension
161.9266667
declination
13.9856389
epoch
J2000.0
radial velocity
695
redshift
0.002322
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3377 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Leo. It is a member of the M96 Group and is about 26 Mly away, with a diameter of approximately 40 000 ly. The supermassive black hole at the core of NGC 3377 has a mass of 8.0+0.5 −0.6×10 M☉. A very faint companion galaxy, NGC 3377A is 7.1' NW.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3377” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.