NGC 6509
id:
ngc-6509-163-16366105
title:
NGC 6509
text:
NGC 6509 is a spiral galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Ophiuchus. It was discovered on July 20, 1879 by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan. This galaxy is located at a distance of 95.3 million light-years (29.22 Mpc) from the Milky Way, and is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 1,814 km/s. This is a bulge-less disk galaxy with a morphological classification of Sd. The plane of the galaxy is inclined at an angle of 41°±4° to the plane of the sky, and the oval outline is or
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Galaxy in the constellation Ophiuchus
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_6509
date created:
2020-05-16T19:53:04Z
date modified:
2024-08-28T17:11:26Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1146211","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1146211"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/22/NGC6509-Final-v2.png","width":1079,"height":1098}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16