NGC 759

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NGC 759
2MASS NGC 759.jpg
2MASS image of NGC 759.
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Andromeda
Right ascension 01h 57m 50.3s [1]
Declination 36° 20′ 35″ [1]
Redshift 0.015567 [1]
Heliocentric radial velocity 4667 km/s [1]
Distance 230  Mly (70.4  Mpc) [1]
Group or cluster Abell 262
Apparent magnitude  (V)13.3 [1]
Characteristics
Type E [1]
Size~110,000  ly (33  kpc) (estimated) [1]
Apparent size  (V)1.6 × 1.4 [1]
Other designations
MCG 6-5-67, PGC 7397, UGC 1440 [1]

NGC 759 is an elliptical galaxy located 230 million light-years away [2] in the constellation Andromeda. NGC 759 was discovered by astronomer by Heinrich d'Arrest on September 17, 1865. [3] It is a member of Abell 262. [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

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Despite being classified as a radio galaxy, [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] the radio emission in NGC 759 could be due to star formation rather than an active galactic nucleus. [12] [13]

Dust disk

The central region of NGC 759 harbors a face-on dust disk with tightly wound spiral structure. The disk has a diameter of 11,000  ly (3.4  kpc ). [14] The dust disk also contains a smaller circumnuclear molecular gas ring that has star formation in H II regions. [15] [16] These features may be the result of a merger of gas-rich disk galaxies [15] [16] [17] or by the accretion of gas-rich material. In either scenario, the gas would have lost momentum and fallen to the center of the galaxy to produce the disk and current star formation. [17] However, Vlasyuk et al. suggests that the disk and the smaller circumnuclear molecular gas ring with star formation inside the main disk formed from a tidal encounter between NGC 759 and a large spiral galaxy which was accompanied by a substantial gas accretion. [16]

The dust disk in NGC 759 as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope NGC 759 -HST-622w.png
The dust disk in NGC 759 as imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope

Molecular gas

NGC 759 contains 2.4 × 109 M☉ of molecular gas. Most of the gas is concentrated in a circumnuclear molecular gas ring with a diameter of 4,200  ly (1.3  kpc ). [15] The gas may be the result of the same merger event that produced the circumnuclear molecular gas ring and the main disk. [16] [15] [17]

SN 2002fb

NGC 759 has had one supernova, [18] SN 2002fb which was discovered on September 6, 2002. It was classified as a type Ia supernova. [19] [20] [21]

See also

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