NGC 4696
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 4696 is referenced by 642 other articles, and connects out to Alpha Centauri, NGC 4624 and Centaurus.
Vinony files it under Centaurus, Centaurus Cluster and Elliptical galaxies.
Its subject is documented across 33 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Right ascension
- 12 48 49.3
- Declination
- −41 ° 18 ′ 40 ″
- Redshift
- 2958 ± 15 km/ s
- Distance
- 116 ± 9 Mly (35 ± 3 Mpc )
- Type
- E1 pec
- Apparent size v
- 4.5 ′ × 3.2 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- elliptical galaxy
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Distance from Earth
- 35.04
- Image
- NGC 4696 Hubble WikiSky.jpg
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- catalog code
- SUMSS J124849-411842
- redshift
- 0.009867
- Commons category
- NGC 4696
- discoverer or inventor
- James Dunlop
- time of discovery or invention
- 1826-00-00
- galaxy morphological type
- S...
- apparent magnitude
- 7.142
- right ascension
- 192.2053208
- declination
- -41.3110889
- radial velocity
- 2983
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4696 is an elliptical galaxy. It lies around 145,000,000 light-years (44,000,000 pc) away in the constellation Centaurus. It is the brightest galaxy in the Centaurus Cluster, a large, rich cluster of galaxies in the constellation of the same name. The galaxy is surrounded by many dwarf elliptical galaxies also located within the cluster. There is believed to be a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy.
One supernova, SN 2017ejb (type Ia, mag. 17.2), was discovered in NGC 4696 on 28 May, 2017.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4696” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.