NGC 4500

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NGC 4500
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HST image of NGC 4500 (upper left)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Ursa Major
Right ascension 12h 31m 22.15431s [1]
Declination +57° 57′ 52.6226″ [1]
Redshift 0.0110 [2]
Heliocentric radial velocity 3280 km/s [2]
Distance 157.5  Mly (48.30  Mpc) [3]
Apparent magnitude  (V)12.52 [4]
Apparent magnitude  (B)13.12 [4]
Characteristics
Type SB(s)a [5]
Other designations
UGC 7667, MCG +10-18-062, Mrk 213, PGC 41436 [2]

NGC 4500 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. The galaxy was discovered on April 17, 1789 by William Herschel. [6] It is a blue compact galaxy. [2]

Contents

Its distance from Earth is approximately 50 million parsecs. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 Brown, A. G. A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics . 616. A1. arXiv: 1804.09365 . Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G . doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201833051 .
  2. 1 2 3 4 "NGC 4500". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  3. 1 2 Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal. 655 (2): 790–813. arXiv: astro-ph/0610732 . Bibcode:2007ApJ...655..790C. doi:10.1086/510201. S2CID   11672751.
  4. 1 2 "Search specification: NGC 4500". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  5. ↑ "Results for object NGC 4500 (NGC 4500)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-02-04.
  6. ↑ "New General Catalog Objects: NGC 4500 - 4549". cseligman.com. Retrieved 2017-08-11.


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