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EntityQ933064· pop 29· linked from 495 articles

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Vinony's link graph records 495 inbound references to NGC 4066, and connects out to NGC 4624, Coma Berenices and epoch.

It is catalogued under topics including Astronomical objects discovered in 1785, Coma Berenices and Discoveries by William Herschel.

Vinony links it to 28 Wikipedia language editions.

Key facts

Constellation
Coma Berenices
Right ascension
12 04 09.4
Declination
20 ° 20 ′ 53 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
7365 km/s
Distance
340 Mly (105 Mpc )
Group or cluster
NGC 4065 Group
Type
E
Size
~150,000 ly (47 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v
1.2 x 1.2

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Wikidata facts

Constellation
Coma Berenices
Distance from Earth
107.44
Image
SDSS NGC 4066.jpg
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galaxy morphological type
Sb
catalog code
[ZEH2003] RX J1204.1+2020 1
discoverer or inventor
John Frederick William Herschel
time of discovery or invention
1827-02-24
apparent magnitude
15.446
right ascension
181.0392030
declination
20.3479380
radial velocity
7267
redshift
0.024567
epoch
J2000.0
Commons category
NGC 4066
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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 4066 is an elliptical galaxy located 340 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. The galaxy was discovered by astronomer William Herschel on April 27, 1785. NGC 4066 is a member of the NGC 4065 Group.

See also

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 4066” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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