Astronomy:NGC 606
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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Pisces
| NGC 606 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 606 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Pisces |
| Right ascension | 01h 34m 50.14672s[1] |
| Declination | +21° 25′ 06.3712″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.033253[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 9803 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 465.5 ± 32.6 Mly (142.72 ± 10.00 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 14.5[2] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SB(r)c[3] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 1126, MCG+03-05-010, PGC 5874[3] | |
NGC 606 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the Pisces constellation about 470 million light-years[3] from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the French astronomer Édouard Stephan in 1881.[4][5]
SN 2016fmt, a type II supernova, occurred in NGC 606.[6]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Brown, A. G. A. (August 2018). "Gaia Data Release 2: Summary of the contents and survey properties". Astronomy & Astrophysics 616: A1. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201833051. Bibcode: 2018A&A...616A...1G.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NGC 606". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+606.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 "Results for object NGC 0570 (NGC 570)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20570&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 606 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC606.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 606". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC606.
- ↑ "SN 2016fmt". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=SN+2016fmt.
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