NGC 5972
| Galaxy NGC 5972 |
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| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Snake |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 15 h 38 m 54.1 s |
| declination | + 17 ° 01 ′ 34 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | S0-a / Sy2 |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.8 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 14.7 mag |
| Angular expansion | 1 ′, 0 × 0 ′, 7 |
| Position angle | 5 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.029741 ± 0.000133 |
| Radial velocity | (8916 ± 40) km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(402 ± 28) x 10 6 ly (123.2 ± 8.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan |
| Discovery date | June 29, 1880 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5972 • UGC 9946 • PGC 55684 • CGCG 107-018 • MCG + 03-40-16 • 2MASX J15385414 + 1701344 • | |
NGC 5972 is a lenticular galaxy with an active nucleus of the Hubble type S0 / a in the constellation Serpens Caput north of the celestial equator . It is estimated to be 402 million light years away from the Milky Way and has a diameter of about 120,000 ly. In the same area of the sky there are u. a. the galaxies NGC 5962 , NGC 5977 , IC 1130 .
The object was discovered on June 29, 1880 by Édouard Jean-Marie Stephan with an 80 cm Foucault reflector at the Observatoire de Marseille .
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