NGC 4242
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ngc-4242-170-14585226
title:
NGC 4242
text:
NGC 4242 is a spiral galaxy in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. The galaxy is about 18 million light years away. It was discovered on 10 April 1788 by William Herschel, and it was described as "very faint, considerably large, irregular, round, very gradually brighter in the middle, resolvable" by John Louis Emil Dreyer, the compiler of the New General Catalogue. NGC 4242's galaxy morphological type is SABdm. This means that it is an intermediate spiral galaxy, with loosely wound spi
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Galaxy in constellation Canes Venatici
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_4242
date created:
2018-04-15T15:01:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T02:46:52Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Dim_and_diffuse.jpg","width":1280,"height":1132}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16