Galaxy in the constellation Draco
NGC 4363 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Draco . Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 1474 ± 3 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 21.75 ± 1.52 Mpc (∼71 million light-years ). The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 10 December 1797.
On 31 October 2023, Kōichi Itagaki discovered a supernova in NGC 4363: SN 2023wcr (type II , mag. 16).
NGC 4589 Group
NGC 4363 is a bright galaxy in the X-ray range and is part of the NGC 4589 group which includes at least 17 other galaxies also bright in the X-ray range: NGC 4127 , NGC 4133 , NGC 4159 , NGC 4291 , NGC 4319 , NGC 4331 , NGC 4386 , NGC 4589 , NGC 4648 , UGC 7086, UGC 7189, UGC 7238, UGC 7265, UGC 7844, UGC 7872 and UGC 7908.
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References
^ "Results for object NGC 4363" . NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database . NASA and Caltech . Retrieved 14 August 2024.
Seligman, Courtney. "NGC 4363" . Celestial Atlas . Retrieved 14 August 2024.
"SN 2023wcr" . Transient Name Server . IAU . Retrieved 14 August 2024.Sengupta, Chandreyee; Balasubramanyam, Ramesh (2006). "H I content in galaxies in loose groups" . Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society . 369 (1): 360–368. arXiv :astro-ph/0604020 . Bibcode :2006MNRAS.369..360S . doi :10.1111/j.1365-2966.2006.10307.x .
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The spiral galaxy NGC 4363
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