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Edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices
NGC 4222 is an edge-on
spiral galaxy
[2] located about 60 million
light-years away
[3] in the constellation
Coma Berenices .
[4] It was discovered by astronomer
William Herschel on April 8, 1784 and is often misidentified as
IC 3087 .
[5] NGC 4222 is a member of the
Virgo Cluster
[6]
[7] and is a companion of
NGC 4216
[8] which lies about 180,000
ly (56
kpc ) away.
[9]
[8] Despite this, the two galaxies are not
interacting .
[9]
See also
References
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"NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database" . Results for NGC 4222 . Retrieved 2018-08-12 .
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"Your NED Search Results" . ned.ipac.caltech.edu . Retrieved 2018-08-12 .
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"NED Query Results for NGC 4222" . ned.ipac.caltech.edu . Retrieved 2018-08-12 .
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"Revised NGC Data for NGC 4222" . spider.seds.org . Retrieved 2018-08-12 .
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"New General Catalog Objects: NGC 4200 - 4249" . cseligman.com . Retrieved 2018-07-28 .
^ Binggeli, B.; Sandage, A.; Tammann, G. A. (September 1985). "Studies of the Virgo Cluster. II - A catalog of 2096 galaxies in the Virgo Cluster area. V - Luminosity functions of Virgo Cluster galaxies". The Astronomical Journal . 90 : 1681.
Bibcode :
1985AJ.....90.1681B .
doi :
10.1086/113874 .
ISSN
0004-6256 .
^ C., Kraan-Korteweg, R. (March 1982). "A complete sample of Virgo cluster galaxies". Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series . 47 : 505.
Bibcode :
1982A&AS...47..505K .
ISSN
0365-0138 . {{
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link )
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b Paudel, Sanjaya; Duc, Pierre-Alain; Côté, Patrick; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Ferrarese, Laura; Etienne Ferriere; Gwyn, Stephen D. J.; Mihos, J. Christopher; Vollmer, Bernd (2013).
"The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey. IV. NGC 4216: A Bombarded Spiral in the Virgo Cluster" . The Astrophysical Journal . 767 (2): 133.
arXiv :
1302.6611 .
Bibcode :
2013ApJ...767..133P .
doi :
10.1088/0004-637X/767/2/133 .
ISSN
0004-637X .
S2CID
118421922 .
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b Chung, Aeree; Gorkom, J. H. van; Kenney, Jeffrey D. P.; Crowl, Hugh; Vollmer, Bernd (2010).
"Erratum: "VLA Imaging of Virgo Spirals in Atomic Gas (VIVA). I. The Atlas and The H I Properties" (2009, AJ, 138, 1741)" . The Astronomical Journal . 139 (6): 2716.
arXiv :
0909.0781 .
Bibcode :
2010AJ....139.2716C .
doi :
10.1088/0004-6256/139/6/2716 .
ISSN
1538-3881 .
S2CID
199671804 .
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