NGC 5790

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

Rarity follows how well known the article is: its views on the French and English Wikipedia over a year, and the number of languages it exists in.

At a glance

Class

Place

Domain

Science and technology

In collections

Nobody has pulled it yet.

What Wikipedia says

NGC 5790 is a lenticular galaxy located 541 million light-years away in the constellation Boötes. It was discovered on 16 May 1884 by French astronomer Édouard Stephan. The galaxy is approximately 180,000 light-years across. NGC 5790 is a type 2 Seyfert galaxy according to the SIMBAD database.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “NGC 5790”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Sloan Digital Sky Survey, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.