Key facts
- Constellation
- Coma Berenices
- Right ascension
- 12 59 35.709
- Declination
- +27 ° 57 ′ 33.80 ″
- Redshift
- 0.023 907 ± 0.000 006 67
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7,167 ± 2 km/s
- Distance
- 315.73 ± 6.41 Mly (96.804 ± 1.966 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- Coma Cluster
- Type
- cD; Di
- Size
- 79.792 to 82.79 kpc (260,250 to 270,020 ly ), (diameter; D 25.0 B-band and 2MASS K-band total isophotes
- Apparent size v
- 1.9 ′ × 1.9 ′
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 4874 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered on 11 April 1785 by German-British astronomer William Herschel, who catalogued it as a bright patch of nebulous feature. The second-brightest galaxy within the northern Coma Cluster, it is located at a distance of about 97 megaparsecs (316,000,000 light-years) from Earth.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1115151” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.