NGC 538

NGC 538
SDSS image of NGC 538
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Cetus
Right ascension	01h 25m 26.06364s [1]
Declination	−01° 33′ 02.2258″ [1]
Redshift	0.017756 [1]
Heliocentric radial velocity	5276 km/s [1]
Distance	250  Mly (77  Mpc) [2]
Apparent magnitude  (B)	14.58 [1]
Characteristics
Type	SB(s)ab: [2]
Other designations
UGC 991, MCG +00-04-130, PGC 5275 [1]

NGC 538 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. It is located about 250 million light-years from the Milky Way ^[2] with a diameter of approximately 95,000 ly.^{[ citation needed ]} NGC 538 was discovered by the American astronomer Lewis Swift in 1886. ^{[3] [4] [5]}

NGC 538 is estimated to be about 2.5 billion years old. ^[6]

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)

References

1. "NGC 538". SIMBAD . Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg . Retrieved 2020-05-02.
2. Gil de Paz, Armando; et al. (December 2007). "The GALEX Ultraviolet Atlas of Nearby Galaxies". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 173 (2): 185–255. arXiv: astro-ph/0606440 . Bibcode:2007ApJS..173..185G. doi:10.1086/516636. S2CID   119085482.
3. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 538 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
4. "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
5. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 538". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-04-10.
6. Fraser-Mckelvie, Amelia; Brown, Michael J. I.; Pimbblet, Kevin A.; Dolley, Tim; Crossett, Jacob P.; Bonne, Nicolas J. (2016). "A photometrically and spectroscopically confirmed population of passive spiral galaxies". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 462 (1): L11 –L15. arXiv: 1606.03781 . Bibcode:2016MNRAS.462L..11F. doi: 10.1093/mnrasl/slw117 .

External links

• Media related to NGC 538 at Wikimedia Commons