Astronomy:NGC 906
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Short description: Galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
| NGC 906 | |
|---|---|
 Pan-STARRS image of NGC 906 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Andromeda |
| Right ascension | 02h 25m 16.255s[1] |
| Declination | +42° 05′ 23.48″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.01561[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 4643 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 207.5 Mly (63.62 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 12.71[4] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.76[2] |
| Absolute magnitude (V) | −21.0[4] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SBab[4] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 1868, MCG+07-06-012, PGC 9188[2] | |
NGC 906 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda in the northern sky. It is estimated to be 215 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 110,000 ly. NGC 906 was discovered on October 30, 1878 by astronomer Édouard Stephan.[5][6]
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References
- ↑ 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. Bibcode: 2006AJ....131.1163S.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "NGC 906". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+906.
- ↑ 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. Bibcode: 2007ApJ...655..790C.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 "Results for object NGC 0906 (NGC 906)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC%20906&hconst=67.8&omegam=0.308&omegav=0.692&wmap=4&corr_z=1.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 906 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=934.
- ↑ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 906". http://spider.seds.org/ngc/revngcic.cgi?NGC%20906.
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