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
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- 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.