Messier 87
Galaxy in the Virgo Galactic Cluster
Also known as M87 · Virgo A
- Constellation
- Distance from Earth
- 53.9M ly
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Sources- 1.“Cosmicflows-3”adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016AJ....152...50TRetrieved 2018-06-18
- , 16.52 Mpc
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- 53.9M ly
- Apparent magnitude
- 8.63
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- , 10.16
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- , 9.59
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- +10 more
- 8.63
- Right ascension
- 187.7059 degree
- Declination
- 12.3911 degree
Overview
All data
144 statements · 88% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Catalog code
- M 87 catalog: Messier object
1
- IRAS F12282+1240 catalog: IRAS
1
- IRAS 12282+1240 catalog: IRAS
1
- PGC 41361 catalog: Principal Galaxies Catalogue
2
Sources- 1.Stated in SIMBAD
- 2.haroldcorwin.net/rc3/rc39b.csv.gzRetrieved 2018-12-28
- 2MASX J12304942+1223279 catalog: Two Micron All-Sky Survey, Extended source catalogue
1
- MCG+02-32-105 catalog: Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies
1
- UGC 7654 catalog: Uppsala General Catalogue
1
- NGC 4486 catalog: New General Catalogue
1
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- VCC 1316 catalog: Virgo Cluster Catalog
1
- 1ES 1228+12.6 catalog: Einstein Slew Survey, Version No. 1
1
- EVCC 786 catalog: Extended Virgo Cluster Catalog
1
- SDSS J123047.55+122318.0 catalog: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
1
- NVSS J123049+122321 catalog: NRAO VLA Sky Survey
1
- QSO B1228+126 catalog: Revised and Updated Catalog of Quasi-stellar Objects
1
- 3C 274.0 catalog: Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
1
- 3C 274 catalog: Third Cambridge Catalogue of Radio Sources
1
- 4C 12.45 catalog: Fourth Cambridge Survey
1
- APG 152 catalog: Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
1
- MRC 1228+126 catalog: Molonglo Reference Catalogue of Radio Sources
1
- NVSS B122817+124004 catalog: NRAO VLA Sky Survey
1
- Z 70-139 catalog: Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
1
- 2EUVE J1230+12.3 catalog: The second Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer source catalog
1
- EUVE J1230+12.3 catalog: The first Extreme Ultraviolet Explorer source catalog
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- ICRF J123049.4+122328 catalog: International Celestial Reference Frame
1
- UZC J123049.3+122327 catalog: Updated Zwicky Catalog
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- Z 1228.3+1240 catalog: Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies
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- NVSS J123049+122323 catalog: NRAO VLA Sky Survey
1
- SDSS J123049.41+122328.1 catalog: Sloan Digital Sky Survey
1
- LEDA 41361 catalog: Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database
1
- Gaia DR2 3907709439453756032 catalog: Gaia Data Release 2
1
- 3FHL J1230.8+1223 catalog: 3FHL: The Third Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources
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- 2A 1228+125 catalog: The Ariel V SSI catalogue of high galactic latitude (|b|>10) X-ray sources
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- 2U 1228+12 catalog: The UHURU catalog of X-ray souces
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- 3A 1228+125 catalog: The Ariel V (3A) catalogue of X-ray sources - II. Sources at high galactic latitude ( b > 10 )
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- 3CR 274 catalog: The revised 3C catalogue of radio sources
1
- 3U 1228+12 catalog: The third UHURU catalog of X-ray sources
1
- 4U 1228+12 catalog: The fourth UHURU catalog of X-ray sources
1
- PKS J1230+1223 catalog: The Parkes catalogue of radio sources. Declination zone +20 to +27
1
- PKS 1228+12 catalog: The Parkes catalogue of radio sources. Declination zone +20 to +27
1
- PKS 1228+126 catalog: The Parkes catalogue of radio sources. Declination zone +20 to +27
1
- PKS 1228+127 catalog: The Parkes catalogue of radio sources. Declination zone +20 to +27
1
- XSS J12309+1223 catalog: RXTE all-sky slew survey. Catalog of X-ray sources at |b|>10{deg}
1
- [DGW65] 57 catalog: A catalogue of discrete sources observed at 400 Mc/s
1
- [DML87] 747 catalog: Warm IRAS sources. I. A catalogue of AGN candidates from the point source catalog
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- [VDD93] 163 catalog: IRAS CPC observations of galaxies. I. Catalog and atlas
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- RX J1230.8+1223 catalog: X-ray survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud by ROSAT
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- RX J1230.1+1223 catalog: X-ray survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud by ROSAT
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- GB6 J1230+1223 catalog: The GB6 catalog of radio sources
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- [WCO2009] J123049+122256 catalog: Five-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe observations: source catalog
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- NEWPS5 J1230+1223 catalog: Nonblind Catalog of Extragalactic Point Sources from theWilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe(WMAP) First 3 Year Survey Data
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- 2FGL J1230.8+1224 catalog: Fermi Large Area Telescope second source catalog
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- GB6 B1228+1240 catalog: The GB6 catalog of radio sources
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- [DC78] UGC 7654 catalog: The Arecibo 2380 MHz survey of bright galaxies
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- 3FGL J1230.9+1224 catalog: Fermi Large Area Telescope third source catalog
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- 2FHL J1230.8+1225 catalog: 2FHL: the second catalog of hard Fermi-LAT sources
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- M 87 catalog: Messier object
- Discovered
- March 18, 1781
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- March 18, 1781
- Radial velocity
- 1,284 kilometre per second
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Sources- 1.Stated in NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database“Messier 87”ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=M+87&extend=no&list_limit=5Retrieved 2018-06-18
- 1,280 kilometre per second
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Sources- 1.Stated in Cosmicflows-3
- 2.Stated in Galaxy groups: a 2MASS catalog
- 1,284 kilometre per second
- Galaxy morphological type
- E+0-1 pec
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Sources- 1.Stated in NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database“Messier 87”ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=M+87&extend=no&list_limit=5Retrieved 2018-06-18
- E-E/S0
- E+0-1 pec
- Redshift
- 0.004283
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Sources- 1.Stated in NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database“Messier 87”ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=M+87&extend=no&list_limit=5Retrieved 2018-06-18
- 0.0042
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- 0.0042
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- 0.004283
- Absolute magnitude
- -22
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- -22
- Right ascension component of proper motion
- -8.029 milliarcsecond per year
- Declination component of proper motion
- 10.734 milliarcsecond per year
On other databases
17 identifiers linking Messier 87 across the web's reference databases
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDplace/Virgo-A
- Encyclopædia Universalis IDtrou-noir-de-messier-87
- FAST ID1289205
- Freebase ID/m/01fc2t
- GND ID4382338-5
- J9U entity ID987007549338005171
- Library of Congress Authorities IDsh99005634
- Library of Congress ClassificationQB479.55.M18
- National Library of Israel ID (old)000863558
- New General Catalogue ID4486
- NLab IDMessier 87
- Principal Galaxies Catalogue ID41361
- SIMBAD IDM 87
- Uppsala General Catalogue ID7654
- VIAF cluster ID315139025
- Wolfram Language entity codeEntity["Galaxy", "M87"]
- Yale LUX IDplace/93fcb74a-baf5-4ebc-af32-701b34cec62b