NGC 5980


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 was discovered by the Lick Observatory Supernova Search on 15 June 2004, and independently by Mark Armstrong on 16 June 2004.SN2019pqo was discovered by the Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events on 7 September 2019.