NGC 4603

NGC 4603 is a galaxy in the constellation Centaurus and is 108 million light-years away from Earth. NGC 4603 is a member of the cluster centaur with hundreds of galaxies. The local group, which also includes our Milky Way belongs to this cluster of galaxies approaching at a speed of approximately 1.5 million kilometers per hour, attracted by its gravity.

Besides NGC 4603, there are in the same region of the sky four other galaxies with similar names: NGC 4603A, NGC 4603B, NGC 4603C and NGC 4603D.

The galaxy NGC 4603 was discovered on 8 June 1834 by the British astronomer John Herschel.

Declination Radial velocity New General Catalogue Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies IRAS Velocity List of NGC objects NGC 4605 NGC 4609 NGC 4618 NGC 4622 NGC 4625 NGC 4627
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