Key facts
- Constellation
- Draco
- Right ascension
- 15 15 53.2397
- Declination
- +56 ° 19 ′ 47.568 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 665 ± 1 km/s
- Distance
- 46.56 ± 1.77 Mly (14.275 ± 0.543 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 5907 group (LGG 396)
- Surface brightness
- 23.6 mag/arcsec
- Type
- SA(s)c? edge-on
- Size
- ~173,400 ly (53.15 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 12.7′ × 1.4′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Draco
- Distance from Earth
- 13.00
- Image
- NGC5906 - SDSS DR14 (panorama).jpg
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- epoch
- J2000.0
- Commons category
- NGC 5907
- catalog code
- [VDD93] 205
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1788-05-05
- apparent magnitude
- 10.360
- redshift
- 0.002220
- galaxy morphological type
- Sbc
- right ascension
- 228.9736958
- declination
- 56.3288500
- radial velocity
- 535
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5907 (also known as NGC 5906, Knife Edge Galaxy, or Splinter Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy located approximately 46.5 million light years from Earth. German-British astronomer William Herschel discovered the galaxy on 5 May 1788. Its most notable features are its large stellar stream and ultraluminous X-ray source.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5907” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.