UGC 12591
id:
ugc-12591-208-7122711
title:
UGC 12591
text:
UGC 12591 is the third most massive known spiral galaxy, after ISOHDFS 27 and J2345-0449. It is located about 400 million light-years away from the Earth in the constellation Pegasus. In addition, it is the spiral galaxy with the highest known rotational speed of about 500 km/s, almost twice that of our galaxy, the Milky Way. The high rotational speed means the galaxy must be very massive at the center; the galaxy has a mass estimated at 4 times that of the Milky Way, making it the third of the
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Spiral Galaxy in Pegasus
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UGC_12591
date created:
2017-03-20T10:01:20Z
date modified:
2024-09-11T15:28:14Z
main entity:
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image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c8/UGC12591_Hubble_4000.jpg","width":4096,"height":3411}
fields total:
13
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16