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Within Vinony's link graph, NGC 5838 is referenced by 635 other articles, and connects out to list of stars in Virgo, Arp 240 and epoch.
Vinony files it under Lenticular galaxies, NGC objects and Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects.
Its subject is documented across 30 Wikipedia language editions.
Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- GiG
- Redshift
- z = 0.004556
- Morphology
- S_AB
- Coordinates
- RA 226.3594° · Dec 2.0993°
via SIMBAD · CDS Strasbourg
Key facts
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Right ascension
- 15 5 26.2
- Declination
- +2 ° 5 ′ 58 ″
- Redshift
- 1359 ± 10 km/ s
- Type
- SA0
- Apparent size v
- 4.2 ′ × 1.5 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- lenticular galaxy
- Constellation
- Virgo
- Distance from Earth
- 21.77
- Image
- Ngc5838.jpg
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- galaxy morphological type
- E-S0
- catalog code
- LEDA 53862
- Commons category
- NGC 5838
- time of discovery or invention
- 1786-02-24
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- redshift
- 0.004546
- apparent magnitude
- 7.581
- right ascension
- 226.3594667
- declination
- 2.0993556
- radial velocity
- 1427
- epoch
- J2000.0
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5838 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo, discovered by William Herschel in 1786. It is a member of the Virgo III Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out to the east of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies.
References
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5838” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.