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galaxy

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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 5821 is referenced by 472 other articles, and connects out to list of NGC objects (5001–6000), Boötes and epoch.

Vinony files it under Boötes, LEDA objects and MCG objects.

Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiP
Redshift
z = 0.01115
Coordinates
RA 224.7485° · Dec 53.9233°
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Key facts

Constellation
Boötes
Right ascension
14 58 59.722
Declination
+53 ° 55 ′ 23.41 ″
Redshift
0.011 261 ± 0.000 037 km/ s
Distance
169.2 Mly (51.89 Mpc )
Type
Sc
Apparent size v
1.31′ × 0.70′

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
spiral galaxy
Constellation
Boötes
Distance from Earth
51.89
Image
NGC5821 - SDSS DR14.jpg
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galaxy morphological type
S0
catalog code
SDSS J145859.66+535523.7
time of discovery or invention
1789-04-24
discoverer or inventor
William Herschel
redshift
0.011261
apparent magnitude
10.642
right ascension
224.7488417
declination
53.9231694
radial velocity
3539
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 5821
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 5821 is a spiral galaxy with a ring structure in the constellation Boötes. It lies near a similarly massed galaxy, NGC 5820, at the same redshift. Both galaxies were discovered by the astronomer William Herschel.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5821” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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