NGC 4569

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NGC 4569 is a bright, gas-stripped spiral galaxy in the Virgo Cluster notable for its unusually low star formation and strong nuclear activity.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
NGC 4569 canonical 5

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf SAB(rs)ab galaxy
Virgo Cluster member
extragalactic radio source
gas-stripped galaxy
spiral galaxy
discoveredBy William Herschel
discoveryDate 1781-03-18
environmentalEffect interaction with Virgo Cluster intracluster medium
hasAlternativeName M90
Messier 90
PGC 42089
UGC 7772
hasAngularSize 9.5 × 4.4 arcminutes
hasApparentMagnitudeV 9.5
hasBulgeType prominent bulge
hasCentralStarburst yes
hasColor relatively red disk
hasDeclination +13° 09′ 46″
hasDeficientNeutralHydrogen true
hasDistanceFromEarth approximately 16.5 megaparsecs
approximately 54 million light-years
hasGalaxyType intermediate spiral galaxy
hasInclinationToLineOfSight approximately 63 degrees
hasInnerRing yes
hasLowStarFormationRate true
hasMorphologicalType SAB(rs)ab
hasNuclearActivityType LINER
Seyfert-like nucleus
linked to: Seyfert 2
hasPositionAngle approximately 23 degrees
hasRadialVelocity approximately −235 km/s
hasRadioContinuumTail yes
hasRedshift −0.0008
hasRightAscension 12h 36m 49.8s
hasStellarMass on the order of 10^10 solar masses
hasSupernova SN 1999cl
hasSuppressedStarFormationInDisk true
hasTruncatedGasDisk true
hostedSupernovaType Type Ia
includedInCatalogue Messier Catalogue
linked to: Messier catalogue

New General Catalogue
locatedInConstellation Virgo
memberOf Virgo Cluster
observedInWavelength X-ray
optical
radio
ultraviolet
showsBarStructure weak bar
showsGasStripping ram-pressure stripping
showsNuclearActivity true

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Virgo Cluster containsGalaxy NGC 4569
M90 catalogNumber NGC 4569
M90 hasAlternativeName NGC 4569
NGC 4579 isNearbyTo NGC 4569
NGC 4567 isNearbyTo NGC 4569