Astronomy:NGC 3059
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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Carina
| NGC 3059 | |
|---|---|
 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 3059 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Carina |
| Right ascension | 09h 50m 08.181s[1] |
| Declination | −73° 55′ 19.96″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.004244[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 1269.5 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 48.3 Mly (14.80 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 11.24[2] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 11.56[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SB(rs)bc[3] |
| Other designations | |
| PGC 28298[2] | |
NGC 3059 is a barred spiral galaxy. It is located in the constellation of Carina.[4] The galaxy can be described as being faint, large, and irregularly round. It was discovered on February 22, 1835, by John Herschel.[5] The galaxy has been calculated to be 45 - 50 million lightyears from Earth.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode: 2006AJ....131.1163S. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AJ....131.1163S/abstract.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 "NGC 3059". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+3059.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Results for object NGC 3059 (NGC 3059)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%203059&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ NGC 3059
- ↑ New General Catalog Objects: NGC 3050 - 3099
External links
- NGC 3059 - Galaxy - SKY-MAP
- NGC 3059 - DeepSkyPedia :: Astronomy
- The kinematics of the barred spiral galaxy NGC3059* - Harvard.edu
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