NGC 2608

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NGC 2608
NGC2608 - HST - Potw2023a.tiff
Hubble Space Telescope image of NGC 2608
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Cancer
Right ascension 08h 35m 17.3s [1]
Declination +28° 28′ 24″ [1]
Redshift 0.007122 (2135±8  km/s ) [1]
Distance 93.0  Mly (28.5  Mpc) [2]
Apparent magnitude  (V)13.01 [1]
Characteristics
Type SB(s)b [1]
Apparent size  (V)2.3 × 1.4 arcmin [1]
Other designations
Arp 012, PGC 024111

NGC 2608 (also known as Arp 12) is a barred spiral galaxy located 93 million light-years away in the constellation Cancer (the Crab). It is 62,000 light-years across, and about 60% of the width of the Milky Way. It is considered a grand design spiral galaxy and is classified as SB(s)b, meaning that the galaxy's arms wind moderately (neither tightly nor loosely) around the prominent central bar.

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It was classified under "galaxies with split arms" in the 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies by Halton Arp, who noted that the "nucleus may be double or superposed star". [3] NGC 2608 is now considered to be a pair of interacting galaxies. [4]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 2608. Retrieved 7 Dec 2008.
  2. ↑ Seigar, Marc S. (Jul 2005). "The connection between shear and star formation in spiral galaxies". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters . 361 (1): L20–L24. arXiv: astro-ph/0504529 . Bibcode:2005MNRAS.361L..20S. doi: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2005.00056.x . S2CID   14616885.
  3. ↑ Halton Arp (November 1966). "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies". Astrophysical Journal Supplement. 14: 1. Bibcode:1966ApJS...14....1A. doi:10.1086/190147.
  4. ↑ "NGC 2608". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 8 December 2008.
  5. ↑ Schaefer, Bradley E.; Girard, Terrence M.; arjun (2000). "Weird Supernovae: Superluminous, Superfast and Superfaint Examples". Anni Mirabiles, A Symposium Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Dorrit Hoffleit Held 7–8 March 1997 at Yale University, New Haven, CT.: 69–70. Bibcode:1999anmi.conf...69S.
  6. ↑ Tom Boles
  7. ↑ "International Astronomical Union Circular". Supernova 2001bg in NGC 2608. Central Bureau for Astronomical Telegrams. 9 May 2001. Retrieved 8 December 2008.
  8. ↑ "2001 Annual Report". Central Bureau of Astronomical Telegrams. 2002. Retrieved 5 July 2011.
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