Astronomy:NGC 59
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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Cetus
| NGC 59 | |
|---|---|
 Hubble image of NGC 59 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Right ascension | 00h 15m 25.126s[1] |
| Declination | −21° 26′ 39.68″[1] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 12.59[1] |
| Absolute magnitude (B) | 13.21[1] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | S0[2] |
| Other designations | |
| MCG-04-01-026, PGC 1034[2] | |
NGC 59 is a lenticular galaxy[2] in the constellation Cetus. It is a probable member of the Sculptor Group. It is approximately 17 million light-years away.[3]
NGC 59 has a stellar mass of 5x108 M☉ and it is a low-luminosity, low-metallicity galaxy. It has a young (2 to 6 billion years old) low-metallicity population at its center and an older (about 8 billion years old) overlaying population that has also a low metallicity.[4]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 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 "NGC 59". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+59.
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
<ref>tag; no text was provided for refs namedCook - ↑ Sansom, A. E.; Thirlwall, J. J.; Deakin, M. A.; Väisänen, P.; Kniazev, A. Y.; van Loon, J. Th. (2015-06-01). "The stellar populations in the low-luminosity, early-type galaxy NGC 59". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 450 (2): 1338–1348. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv690. ISSN 0035-8711. Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.450.1338S. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015MNRAS.450.1338S.
External links
- SEDS
- NGC 59 on WikiSky: DSS2, SDSS, GALEX, IRAS, Hydrogen α, X-Ray, Astrophoto, Sky Map, Articles and images
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