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Vinony's link graph records 496 inbound references to NGC 4298, and connects out to solar mass, NGC 4624 and Coma Berenices.
It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1784, Coma Berenices and Discoveries by William Herschel.
Vinony links it to 32 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiC
- Redshift
- z = 0.0037864497482484882
- Morphology
- SA
- Coordinates
- RA 185.3865° · Dec 14.6061°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 21 32.7
- Declination
- 14 ° 36 ′ 22 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1135 km/s
- Distance
- 53 Mly (16.4 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Virgo Cluster
- Type
- SA(rs)c
- Mass
- 1.5 × 10 M ☉
- Size
- ~55,000 ly (17 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 3.30 x 1.24
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Distance from Earth
- 19.67
- Image
- NGC 4298 hst 09042 R814GB450.png
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- radial velocity
- 1046
- catalog code
- LEDA 39950
- Commons category
- NGC 4298
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1784-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 8.466
- galaxy morphological type
- Sc(dSc)
- right ascension
- 185.38649079793210
- declination
- 14.60612675105470
- redshift
- 0.00381
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4298 is a flocculent spiral galaxy located about 53 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 8, 1784 and is a member of the Virgo Cluster.
NGC 4298 may harbor an intermediate-mass black hole with an estimated mass ranging from 20,000 (2×10 M☉) to 500,000 (5×10 M☉) solar masses.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4298” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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