NGC 7002 is a large elliptical galaxy, and a radio galaxy, around 320 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Indus. The galaxy was discovered by English astronomer John Herschel on September 30, 1834. NGC 7002 is the brightest member of a group of galaxies known as [T2015] nest 200093. The group contains 12 member galaxies including NGC 7004, has a velocity dispersion of 440 km/s and an estimated mass of 1.28 × 1014 M☉. NGC 7002 is also host to a supermassive black hole with an estimated mass of 2.7 × 109 M☉.
Galaxy in the constellation Indus
NGC 7002
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- Constellation
- Indus
- Right ascension
- 21h 03m 44.8s
- Declination
- −49° 01′ 47″
- Redshift
- 0.024520
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 7351 km/s
- Distance
- 319 Mly (97.9 Mpc)
- Apparent magnitude (V)
- 13.46
- Absolute magnitude (B)
- -23.35 ± 0.58
- Type
- E1 pec
- Size
- ~175,000 ly (53.66 kpc) (estimated)
- Apparent size (V)
- 1.5 × 1.2
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