Short description: Elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Aries
| NGC 990 | |
|---|---|
 Pan-STARRS image of NGC 990 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Aries |
| Right ascension | 02h 36m 18.206s[1] |
| Declination | +11° 38′ 31.57″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.011701[2] |
| Helio radial velocity | 3487 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 153.0 Mly (46.90 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 12.46[4] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 13.49[4] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | E[2] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 2089, MCG+02-07-018, PGC 9890[2] | |
NGC 990 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Aries about 153 million light-years from the Milky Way.[3] It was discovered by the German - British astronomer William Herschel in 1786.[5][6]
See also
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: 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AJ....131.1163S/abstract.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "NGC 990". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=NGC+990.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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 "Search specification: NGC 990". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC 990.
- ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 990 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=1014.
- ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=ngc+990&img_stamp=YES.
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