Astronomy:NGC 3610
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Short description: Elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
| NGC 3610 | |
|---|---|
 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 3610, showing its disk | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Ursa Major |
| Right ascension | 11h 18m 25.276s[1] |
| Declination | +58° 47′ 10.49″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.005694[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 1707[2] |
| Distance | 82.56 ± 29.32 Mly (25.313 ± 8.991 Mpc)[2] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 11.4[3] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | E5:[2] |
| Size | 76,800 ly (23,560 pc)[2] |
| Apparent size (V) | 3.2′ × 3.2′[2] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 6319, MGC+10-16-107, PGC 34566 | |
NGC 3610 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major.[4] It was discovered on 8 April 1793 by William Herschel.[5]
NGC 3610 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2015. The image shows a prominent disk, a characteristic of spiral galaxies but not elliptical galaxies. Elliptical galaxies are thought to form from collisions with spiral galaxies; NGC 3610 is a relatively young elliptical galaxy which has still not lost its disk yet.[4]
Gallery
NGC 3610 by Hubble Space Telescope
NGC 3610 (SDSS DR14)
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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 "Results for NGC 252". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+252&extend=no&hconst=73&omegam=0.27&omegav=0.73&corr_z=1&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES.
- ↑ "NGC 3610". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+3610.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "A young elliptical". https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1546a/.
- ↑ "NGC 3610 (= PGC 34566)". http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc36a.htm#3610.
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