NGC 4697

chart

elliptical galaxy of

Virgo

path on GitHub

https://github.com/davepinch/pinchy.cc/blob/master/content/topics/astronomy/catalogs/ngc/ngc-4697/ngc-4697.md

photograph

random

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tags

elliptical galaxy
NGC object

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q729053

Wikipedia

NGC 4697 (Wikipedia) NGC 4697 (also known as Caldwell 52) is an elliptical galaxy some 40 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It is a member of the NGC 4697 Group, a group of galaxies also containing NGC 4731 and several generally much smaller galaxies. This group is about 55 million light-years away; it is one of the many Virgo II Groups, which form a southern extension of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies.