NGC 5253
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Right ascension
- 13 39 55.9561
- Declination
- −31 ° 38 ′ 24.364 ″
- Redshift
- 407 ± 3 km/ s
- Distance
- 10.9 ± 0.6 Mly (3.33 ± 0.17 Mpc )
- Type
- Im pec
- Size
- 27,300 ly (8.37 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 5.0 ′ × 1.9 ′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Constellation
- Centaurus
- Distance from Earth
- 4.0
- Image
- A Peculiar Compact Blue Dwarf Galaxy.jpg
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- catalog code
- SUMSS J133955-313827
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- galaxy morphological type
- Impec
- redshift
- 0.001348
- Commons category
- NGC 5253
- time of discovery or invention
- 1787-03-15
- apparent magnitude
- 8.287
- right ascension
- 204.9832917
- declination
- -31.6400306
- radial velocity
- 403
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 5253 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. It was discovered by William Herschel on 15 March 1787.
Properties
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 5253” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.