UGC 3855

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UGC 3855
The Modest Galaxy.jpg
UGC 3855 and a foreground star imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation Lynx
Right ascension 7 28 14.56
Declination 58° 30' 28.63"
Distance 130 mly
Characteristics
Type Spiral

UGC 3855, also known as PGC 21067 or sometimes as the Modest galaxy, is a spiral galaxy located around 40 mpc from Earth in the constellation of Lynx. [1] [2] It is a relatively old galaxy with a stellar population around 10.6 billion years old. It also has a low rate of star formation of about 0.2 solar masses per year. [3]

It was the host galaxy to a supernova known as SN 2021agco, the closest ultra-stripped supernova discovered. [3]

References

  1. ↑ information@eso.org. "The Modest Galaxy". www.esahubble.org. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
  2. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "UGC 3855 (Galaxy)". In-The-Sky.org. Retrieved 14 November 2025.
  3. 1 2 Yan, Shengyu; Wang, Xiaofeng; Gao, Xing; Zhang, Jujia; Filippenko, Alexei V.; Brink, Thomas G.; Mo, Jun; Lin, Weili; Xiang, Danfeng; Ma, Xiaoran; Guo, Fangzhou; Tomasella, Lina; Benetti, Stefano; Cai, Yongzhi; Cappellaro, Enrico (1 December 2023). "Discovery of the Closest Ultra-stripped Supernova: SN 2021agco in UGC 3855". The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 959 (2): L32. arXiv: 2310.04827 . Bibcode:2023ApJ...959L..32Y. doi: 10.3847/2041-8213/ad0cc3 . ISSN   2041-8205.
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