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galaxy

Key facts

Constellation
Virgo
Right ascension
12 32 45.586
Declination
+00 ° 06 ′ 54.14 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
1131 km/s
Distance
40 million ly
Type
Sc(dSc)
Apparent size v
10.733 x 1.717 82

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4517 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. It was discovered in 1784 by William Herschel. It is a member of the Virgo II Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the southern edge of the Virgo Supercluster.

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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4517” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.