Astronomy:NGC 904

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Short description: Elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aries
NGC 904
legacy surveys image of NGC 903 and NGC 904 (left)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationAries
Right ascension 02h 24m 05.546s[1]
Declination+27° 20′ 32.97″[1]
Redshift0.017956[2]
Helio radial velocity5335 km/s[2]
Distance234.9 Mly (72.02 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)14.98[4]
Characteristics
TypecE[4]
Other designations
UGC 1852, MCG+04-06-024, PGC 9112[2]

NGC 904 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aries. It is estimated to be 244 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 85,000 ly. NGC 904 was discovered on 13 December 1884 by the astronomer Edouard Stephan.[5][6][7]

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References

  1. ↑ 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. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NGC 904". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+904. 
  3. ↑ Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal 655 (2): 790–813. doi:10.1086/510201. Bibcode: 2007ApJ...655..790C. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Search specification: NGC 904". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20904. 
  5. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 904 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC904. 
  6. ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=NGC+904&extend=no. 
  7. ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 904". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC%20904. 




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