NGC5980 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Serpens. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is , which corresponds to a Hubble distance of . However, five non-redshift measurements give a closer mean distance of . It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 19 March 1787.
Supernovae Two supernovae have been observed in NGC 5980: SN2004ci (TypeII, mag. 17.5) was discovered by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search (LOSS) on 15 June 2004, and independently by Mark Armstrong on 16 June 2004. SN2019pqo (TypeIIb, mag. 18.6697) was discovered by the Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) on 7 September 2019.
See also List of NGC objects (5001–6000)
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