NGC 6987

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 6987 est une vaste galaxie elliptique située dans la constellation de l'Indien. Sa vitesse par rapport au fond diffus cosmologique est de 5 070 ± 29 km/s, ce qui correspond à une distance de Hubble de 74,8 ± 5,3 Mpc (∼244 millions d'al). NGC 6987 a été découverte par l'astronome britannique John Herschel en 1834.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “NGC 6987”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

Image: Legacy Surveys / D. Lang (Perimeter Institute), CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.