Astronomy:NGC 860
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Short description: Elliptical galaxy in the constellation Triangulum
| NGC 860 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 860 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Triangulum |
| Right ascension | 02h 15m 00.169s[1] |
| Declination | +30° 46′ 43.44″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.02943[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 8693 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 413.5 ± 29.0 Mly (126.77 ± 8.89 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 15.1[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | E[2] |
| Other designations | |
| PGC 8606[2] | |
NGC 860 is an elliptical galaxy[2] located in the constellation Triangulum. It is about 410 million light-years from the Milky Way.[3] It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1871.[4][5]
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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 "NGC 860". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+860.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Results for object NGC 0860 (NGC 860)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20860&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 860 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC860.
- ↑ Rojas, Sebastián García. "Galaxy NGC 860 - Elliptical Galaxy in Triangulum Constellation" (in en). https://telescopius.com/deep-sky/object/1755/ngc-860/galaxy.
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