UGC 12591

id: ugc-12591-229-223551
title: UGC 12591
text: UGC 12591 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. It is located approximately 400 million light-years from Earth. 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. UGC 12591 is relatively isolated; the nearest galaxy to it is 3.55 million light-years away. However,
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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: 2024-09-15T15:51:26Z
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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
integrity: 16

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