Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- Sy2
- Redshift
- z = 0.011018278109241386
- Coordinates
- RA 198.5567° · Dec -42.9613°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Right ascension
- 13 14 13.656
- Declination
- −42 ° 57 ′ 40.45 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 3549 km/s
- Distance
- 130.6 Mly (40.03 Mpc )
- Type
- (R')SB0/a(rs)
- Size
- 99,300 ly (30,440 pc )
- Apparent size v
- 2.450 ′ × 1.666 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Distance from Earth
- 40.03
- Image
- NGC 5026 DSS.jpg
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- radial velocity
- 3765
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 6136557227081753728
- time of discovery or invention
- 1834-06-05
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- apparent magnitude
- 8.127
- galaxy morphological type
- SBr...
- redshift
- 0.011838
- right ascension
- 198.55666216227950
- declination
- -42.96132251442160
- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 5026
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5026 is a barred spiral galaxy or lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus. It was discovered on 5 June 1834 by John Herschel. It was described as "pretty bright, pretty large, round, gradually brighter middle" by John Louis Emil Dreyer, the compiler of the New General Catalogue.
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Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q1116475” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.