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

* List of NGC objects (1–1000)

## 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: 1163–1183. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006AJ....131.1163S/abstract.
2. ↑ 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. ↑ 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. ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Search specification: NGC 990". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. http://leda.univ-lyon1.fr/ledacat.cgi?o=NGC 990.
5. ↑ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 990 - In-The-Sky.org" (in en). https://in-the-sky.org/data/object.php?id=1014.
6. ↑ "Your NED Search Results". http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=ngc+990&img_stamp=YES.

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