Astronomy:NGC 904

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Short description: Elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aries
NGC 904
NGC 903 NGC 904 legacy dr9.jpg
legacy surveys image of NGC 903 and NGC 904 (left)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationAries
Right ascension 02h 24m 05.546s[1]
Declination+27° 20′ 32.97″[1]
Redshift0.017956[2]
Helio radial velocity5335 km/s[2]
Distance234.9 Mly (72.02 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)14.98[4]
Characteristics
TypecE[4]
Other designations
UGC 1852, MCG+04-06-024, PGC 9112[2]

NGC 904 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Aries. It is estimated to be 244 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 85,000 ly. NGC 904 was discovered on 13 December 1884 by the astronomer Edouard Stephan.[5][6][7]

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W. et al. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal 131 (2): 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. Bibcode2006AJ....131.1163S. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 "NGC 904". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+904. 
  3. Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal 655 (2): 790–813. doi:10.1086/510201. Bibcode2007ApJ...655..790C. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 "Search specification: NGC 904". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC%20904. 
  5. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 904 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=NGC904. 
  6. "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=NGC+904&extend=no. 
  7. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 904". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC%20904. 

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