NGC 4262

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title: "NGC 4262" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["lenticular-galaxies", "barred-lenticular-galaxies", "virgo-cluster", "coma-berenices", "ngc-objects", "ugc-objects", "principal-galaxies-catalogue-objects", "mcg-objects", "sdss-objects"] description: "Galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices" topic_path: "science/astronomy" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_4262" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices ::

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Field	Value
name	NGC 4262
image	NGC_4262_HST_9401_R850GB475.png
caption	Composite image of NGC 4262, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
epoch	J2000
type	SB(s)0−
ra
dec
dist_ly	50.0 Mly
z	1359 ± 4 km/s
appmag_v	12.49
size_v	1.9 × 1.7
size	10.94 kpc
constellation name	Coma Berenices
names
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| name = NGC 4262 | image = NGC_4262_HST_9401_R850GB475.png | caption = Composite image of NGC 4262, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope | epoch = J2000 | type = SB(s)0− | ra = | dec = | dist_ly = 50.0 Mly | z = 1359 ± 4 km/s | appmag_v = 12.49 | size_v = 1.9 × 1.7 | size = 10.94 kpc | constellation name = Coma Berenices | names =

NGC 4262 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation of Coma Berenices.

Characteristics

NGC 4262 is a small and compact barred lenticular galaxy with a high surface brightness central bar. It is a member of the Virgo Cluster at a distance from the Milky Way of around 50 million light-years.

It features an anomalous abundance of neutral hydrogen for a lenticular galaxy, most of it being located on a ring tilted with respect to NGC 4262's galactic plane. Studies with help of the GALEX telescope have found within that ring several clusters of young stars that can be seen on ultraviolet images.

The aforementioned ring is believed to have its origin in NGC 4262 stripping some gas of another galaxy in a close passage, likely its neighbor the spiral Messier 99. NGC 4262 is thought to represent a late stage in the evolution of polar-ring galaxies.

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/ce/NGC4262_-_SDSS_DR14.jpg" caption="NGC 4262 (SDSS DR14)"] ::

References

References

1. "Results for NGC 4262". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database.
2. (2025). "Connecting the dots: Tracing the evolutionary pathway of polar ring galaxies in the cases of NGC 3718, NGC 2685, and NGC 4262". Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia.
3. "Notes for object NGC 4262". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED).
4. (January 2007). "The ACS Virgo Cluster Survey. XIII. SBF Distance Catalog and the Three-dimensional Structure of the Virgo Cluster". The Astrophysical Journal.
5. (March 1985). "Distribution and motions of atomic hydrogen in lenticular galaxies. IV - A ring of H I around NGC 4262". Astronomy and Astrophysics.
6. (September 2010). "NGC 4262: a Virgo galaxy with an extended ultraviolet ring". Astronomy and Astrophysics.
7. (September 2005). "NGC 4254: a spiral galaxy entering the Virgo cluster". Astronomy and Astrophysics.

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