Astronomy:NGC 970
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Short description: Pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Triangulum
| NGC 970 | |
|---|---|
 DSS image of NGC 970 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Triangulum |
| Right ascension | 02h 34m 11.69897s[1] |
| Declination | +32° 58′ 38.3137″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.03270[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 9642 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 471.4 Mly (144.54 Mpc)[3][note 1] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 15.66[3] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | S:[4] |
| Other designations | |
| MCG+05-07-009, PGC 9786[2] | |
NGC 970 is an interacting galaxy pair in the constellation Triangulum. It is estimated to be 471 million light-years[3][note 1] from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 100,000 ly. The object was discovered on September 14, 1850, by Bindon Blood Stoney.[5][6][4]
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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.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NGC 970". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+970.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 "Search specification: NGC 970". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20970.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Seligman, Courtney. "New General Catalogue objects: NGC 950 - 999". http://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc9a.htm#970. Retrieved 2021-02-17.
- ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/objsearch?objname=NGC+970&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.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 970". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC%20970.
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