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EntityQ572763· pop 29· linked from 655 articles

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Vinony's link graph records 655 inbound references to Q572763, and connects out to list of stars in Virgo, Q1112974 and list of NGC objects (4001–5000).

It sits within the topics Intermediate spiral galaxies, NGC objects and Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects.

Vinony links it to 28 Wikipedia language editions.

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
GiG
Redshift
z = 0.011762260008141734
Morphology
SBc
Coordinates
RA 193.5217° · Dec -8.6210°
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Key facts

Constellation
Virgo
Right ascension
12 54 05.240
Declination
−08 ° 37 ′ 15.97 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
3505.5 km/s
Distance
166.3 Mly (51.00 Mpc )
Type
SAB(rs)c

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Wikidata facts

Distance from Earth
51.00
Image
NGC 4780 PanS.jpg
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catalog code
PGC 43870
time of discovery or invention
1880-00-00
apparent magnitude
10.145
galaxy morphological type
Sc
right ascension
193.5218333
declination
-8.6211028
radial velocity
3314
redshift
0.011655
Commons category
NGC 4780
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4780 is an intermediate spiral galaxy within the constellation Virgo. It is located about 166 million light-years (51 Megaparsecs) away from the Sun. It was discovered in 1880 by the astronomer Wilhelm Tempel.

References

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Q572763” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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