Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 12 34 15.9
- Declination
- 13 ° 04 ′ 31 ″
- Redshift
- 0.000650/195 km/s
- Distance
- 49.55 Mly
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- SB0^+
- Size
- ~50,270 ly (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.1 x 2.0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 19.20
- Image
- SDSS NGC 4531.jpg
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- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 3931777237884009728
- right ascension
- 188.56611609579330
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-04-17
- apparent magnitude
- 11.371
- Commons category
- NGC 4531
- declination
- 13.07530663899090
- redshift
- 0.00031
- radial velocity
- 93
- epoch
- J2000.0
- galaxy morphological type
- Sa
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4531 is a spiral galaxy located about 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 17, 1784. NGC 4531 is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
See also
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4531” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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