Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Canes Venatici (CVn)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4190  ·  NGC 4214  ·  PGC 2071870  ·  PGC 2072283  ·  PGC 2072323  ·  PGC 2072886  ·  PGC 2073182  ·  PGC 2073308  ·  PGC 2073411  ·  PGC 2073665  ·  PGC 2073762  ·  PGC 2074719  ·  PGC 2074778  ·  PGC 2074935  ·  PGC 2075552  ·  PGC 2075643  ·  PGC 2076512  ·  PGC 2076651  ·  PGC 2078694  ·  PGC 2079160  ·  PGC 2079180  ·  PGC 2080337  ·  PGC 2080759  ·  PGC 2080830  ·  PGC 2081780  ·  PGC 2083021  ·  PGC 2084421  ·  PGC 2085938  ·  PGC 2086226  ·  PGC 39023  ·  And 5 more.
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NGC 4214 Dwarf Starburst Galaxy, Mau_Bard
NGC 4214 Dwarf Starburst Galaxy, Mau_Bard

NGC 4214 Dwarf Starburst Galaxy

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NGC 4214 Dwarf Starburst Galaxy, Mau_Bard
NGC 4214 Dwarf Starburst Galaxy, Mau_Bard

NGC 4214 Dwarf Starburst Galaxy

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NGC 4214
NGC 4214 is a dwarf barred irregular galaxy located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. IT is a member of the M94 Group (see below).
It is both larger and brighter than the Small Magellanic Cloud as well as a starburst galaxy, with the largest star-forming regions (NGC 4214-I and NGC 4214-II) in the galaxy's center.

NGC 4214 Satellites
Two satellites are known to exist around the vicinity of NGC 4214.
One is PGC039145 (aka DDO 113), visible in the image just above-left the center, which has an absolute V-band magnitude of −12.2. It stopped star formation around 1 billion years ago.
Another, more recently discovered object is MADCASH-2 J121007+352635-dw, out of the field presented here. It is extremely faint. MADCASH stands for Magellanic Analog Dwarf Companions and Stellar Halos.

NGC 4190
NGC 4190 is a faint Hubble-type Im/P irregular dwarf galaxy in the northern sky in the constellation of Hounds and Hounds. It is estimated to be 11 million light-years from the Milky Way and about 5,000 light-years across.
In the same area of the sky are u. a. the galaxies NGC 4163 and NGC 4167.

The object was discovered on May 1, 1785 by the astronomer Wilhelm Herschel using his 18.7 inch reflecting telescope.

M94 Group
The M94 Group (Canes I Group or Canes Venatici I Group) is a loose, extended group of galaxies located about 13 million light-years away in the constellations Canes Venatici and Coma Berenices. The group is one of many groups that lies within the Virgo Supercluster (i.e. the Local Supercluster) and one of the closest groups to the Local Group.
Although the galaxies in this cluster appear to be from a single large cloud-like structure, many of the galaxies within the group are only weakly gravitationally bound, and some have not yet formed stable orbits around the center of this group. Instead, most of the galaxies in this group appear to be moving with the expansion of the universe.
Some members are: IC 3687, IC 4182, M94, NGC 4144, NGC 4190 (here), NGC 4214 (here), NGC 4244, NGC 4395, NGC 4449, UGC 6817, UGC 7559, UGC 7577, UGC 7698, UGC 8320 (M51)
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