Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 11 21 02.8753
- Declination
- +53 ° 10 ′ 11.038 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 1151 ± 1 km/s
- Distance
- 33.7 ± 17.7 Mly (10.3 ± 5.4 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 3631 Group (LGG 241)
- Type
- SA(s)c
- Size
- ~56,700 ly (17.39 kpc ) (estimated)
- Apparent size v
- 5.0′ × 4.8′
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Distance from Earth
- 20.22
- Image
- Hubble Looks at a Face-On Grand Spiral.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 3631
- catalog code
- GB6 B1118+5326
- discoverer or inventor
- William Herschel
- time of discovery or invention
- 1789-04-14
- apparent magnitude
- 11.544
- galaxy morphological type
- SAc
- right ascension
- 170.2622667
- declination
- 53.1694306
- radial velocity
- 1087
- redshift
- 0.003856
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3631 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. It is located at a distance of about 35 million light years from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 3631 is about 60,000 light years across. It was discovered by William Herschel on April 14, 1789. It is a grand design spiral galaxy seen face on.
Characteristics
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3631” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.