NGC 4459

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NGC 4459 is a lenticular galaxy located in the Virgo constellation and is a member of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Virgo Cluster member
galaxy
lenticular galaxy
angularSize ~3.8 × 3.1 arcmin
apparentMagnitudeV ~11.4
catalog New General Catalogue NERFINISHED
centralBlackHoleMass on the order of 10^7–10^8 solar masses
declination +13° 58′
discoveredBy William Herschel NERFINISHED
discoveryDate 1784
distanceFromEarth ~15 Mpc
~50 million light-years
environment cluster environment
hasAlternativeName PGC 41081 NERFINISHED
UGC 7614 NERFINISHED
VCC 1154 NERFINISHED
hasBar no prominent large-scale bar
hasBulge yes
hasCentralBlackHole yes
hasColdGas yes
hasDust yes
hasDustDisk yes
hasIonizedGas yes
hasKinematicsStudy gas kinematics
stellar kinematics
hasNuclearDisk yes
hasPhotometricBandData infrared
optical
hasStarFormation low-level central star formation
hasStellarPopulation dominantly old stars
isEarlyTypeGalaxy yes
isInSupercluster Virgo Supercluster NERFINISHED
isNearbyGalaxy yes
isPartOf local universe
locatedInConstellation Virgo NERFINISHED
memberOf Virgo Cluster NERFINISHED
morphologicalType S0
observedByTelescope Hubble Space Telescope NERFINISHED
Very Large Array NERFINISHED
observedInSurvey Virgo Cluster Catalog NERFINISHED
radialVelocity ~1180 km/s
redshift 0.0039
rightAscension 12h 29m 00s
showsDustLanes yes
spectralType early-type galaxy spectrum
surfaceBrightnessProfile typical of S0 galaxies

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Virgo Cluster containsGalaxy NGC 4459