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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Hydra
Right ascension
10 37 25.4
Declination
−25 ° 19 ′ 10 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
3706 km/s
Distance
55.4 Mpc (181 Mly )
Group or cluster
Hydra Cluster
Type
(R')SB(rs)ab
Size
~119.53 kpc (389,900 ly ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
3.9 × 3.2

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Hydra
Distance from Earth
52.88
Image
PanSTARRS NGC 3313.jpg
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epoch
J2000.0
catalog code
FLASH J103725.51-251906.1
time of discovery or invention
1886-00-00
discoverer or inventor
Ormond Stone
apparent magnitude
9.908
galaxy morphological type
SBc:r
redshift
0.012075
right ascension
159.3560042
declination
-25.3194861
radial velocity
3463
Commons category
NGC 3313
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3313 is a large barred spiral galaxy located about 55 megaparsecs (180 million light-years) away in the constellation Hydra. It was discovered by astronomer Ormond Stone in 1886 and is an outlying member of the Hydra Cluster.

Physical characteristics

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3313” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.