Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Coma Berenices (Com)  ·  Contains:  NGC 4712  ·  NGC 4725  ·  NGC 4747
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galaxies in Coma Berenices, Wim van Berlo
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Ngc 4725, ngc 4747 and ngc 4712 are three galaxies in Coma Berenices. The larger of these (ngc 4725) is a Seyfert 2 galaxy, located about 38 - 50 million light years away. This galaxy is about the same size as the Andromeda galaxy. Equally far away is its companion ngc 4747 which shows signs of a violent past. The smaller galaxy ngc 4712 is not bound to the former two. This is an emission line galaxy, some 200 million light years from us.If you draw a horizontal line from ngc 4747 and a vertical line from ngc 4712, at the intersection of these lines is galaxy 2MASX J12494045+2546186, at about the same distance as ngc 4725. Half way between this small galaxy and ngc 4725 lies a galaxy cluster. Its largest member LEDA 1745311 (just a small reddish smudge in this image) is at a distance of 2.4 Billion light years and is roughly the same size as the largest galaxy in this image (ngc 4725).
There are quite a few faint fuzzies in the background. The furthest is about 3 Billion light years distant.

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