NGC 5068
Sign in to savebarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo
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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 5068 is referenced by 639 other articles, and connects out to list of stars in Virgo, list of NGC objects (5001–6000) and Arp 240.
It sits within the topics Astronomical objects discovered in 1785, Barred spiral galaxies and Discoveries by William Herschel.
Its subject is documented across 31 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 13 18 54.7658
- Declination
- −21 ° 02 ′ 19.705 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 670 ± 1 km/s
- Distance
- 22 Mly (6.8 Mpc )
- Type
- SB(s)d
- Size
- ~68,200 ly (20.91 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 7.2′ × 6.3′
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Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 6.9
- Image
- NGC 5068 GALEX.jpg
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- catalog code
- [VDD93] 182
- galaxy morphological type
- Sd
- Commons category
- NGC 5068
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1785-00-00
- apparent magnitude
- 7.549
- redshift
- 0.002245
- right ascension
- 199.7283625
- declination
- -21.0391000
- radial velocity
- 673
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5068 is a face-on field barred spiral galaxy in the Virgo constellation. NGC 5068 is located approximately 22 million light-years away and has a diameter that exceeds 45000 light-years. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 10 March 1785.
Although no supernovae have been observed in NGC 5068 yet, a luminous red nova, designated AT 2020hat (type LRN, mag. 17.8), was discovered by ATLAS on 12 April 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5068” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.