NGC 4631

Whale Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It is receding from us at about 632 km/s.

Illustration from its catalogued shape, not a photograph

Barred spiral

type · SBcd

9.2

apparent magnitude

632 km/s

receding (RC3)

Worlds in the same direction on the sky→

Source: structural data (position, morphology, brightness, redshift) from OpenNGC (CC BY-SA). Recession velocity from RC3 (de Vaucouleurs et al. 1991, via NASA/HEASARC, public domain). No reliable distance is available, so none is shown.

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