Astronomy:NGC 3818
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Short description: Elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo
| NGC 3818 | |
|---|---|
 Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 3818 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Virgo |
| Right ascension | 11h 41m 57.35927s[1] |
| Declination | −06° 09′ 20.4484″[1] |
| Distance | 118 ± 12 Mly (36.3 ± 3.6 Mpc)[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | E5[2] |
| Apparent size (V) | 1.163′ × 0.768′[3] |
| Other designations | |
| GSC 04937-00483, UGCA 243[4] | |
NGC 3818 is an elliptical galaxy in the Constellation Virgo.[5] It is at a distance of about 118 million light-years away from Earth.[2] In the center of NGC 3818 lies a supermassive black hole. NGC 3818 was discovered by William Herschel on March 5, 1785.[6][7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G. Gaia DR2 record for this source at VizieR.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Trinchieri, G. et al. (May 2015). "Investigating early-type galaxy evolution with a multiwavelength approach - I. X-ray properties of 12 galaxies observed with Swift and XMM-Newton". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 449 (3): 3021–3042. doi:10.1093/mnras/stv466. Bibcode: 2015MNRAS.449.3021T.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ "NGC 3818". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+3818.
- ↑ "NGC 3818 - Elliptical Galaxy". https://theskylive.com/sky/deepsky/ngc3818-object.
- ↑ Seligman. "Sky Atlas" (in en). https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc38.htm.
- ↑ "NGC/IC Project Restoration Efforts". http://ngcicproject.observers.org/NGC/NGC_38xx/NGC_3818.htm.
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