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EntityQ532956· pop 29· linked from 597 articles

Also known as NGC 4007

spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
LIN
Redshift
z = 0.01485
Morphology
Sb
Coordinates
RA 179.5423° · Dec 25.1222°
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Key facts

Constellation
Leo
Right ascension
11 58 10.163
Declination
+25 ° 07 ′ 20.03 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
4419 ± 3 km/s
Distance
Around 200 million light-years
Apparent magnitude b
1.2' × 0.7'
Type
S

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4005 is a spiral galaxy in the Leo constellation, located close to the border with the Coma Berenices. A faintly-glowing galaxy, its apparent magnitude is 13.0.

The American astronomer Barbara A. Williams in 1986 noted that when observations are made of 23 galaxies centred on NGC 4005, a trend is found along the major axis of the group. The correlation in the group between position and velocity's slope is greatly different from 0. Williams put forward the explanation for this that the group rotates with a period of less than 4 billion years, however other interpretations have been discussed.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4005” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.