UGC 8335

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Galaxy
UGC 8335
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Hubble Interacting Galaxy UGC 8335 (2008-04-24) .jpg
Photo of the Hubble Space Telescope ; the lower galaxy is labeled MCG + 10-19-056 and the upper one is labeled MCG + 10-19-057.
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Constellation Big Bear
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 13 h 15 m 32.8 s
declination + 62 ° 07 ′ 37 ″
Appearance
Brightness  (visual) 14.4 mag
Angular expansion 1.7 ′ × 0.7 ′
Physical data
Redshift 0.030831 ± 0.000097  
Radial velocity (9243 ± 29) km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(418 ± 29)  x  10 6  ly
(128.3 ± 9.0)  Mpc 
history
Catalog names
UGC  8335 • PGC  46114/46133 • CGCG  294-28 • MCG  + 10-09-56 / 57 • Arp  238 • VV  250 • VII Zw 506

UGC 8335 = Arp 238 is an interacting galaxy pair in the constellation Great Bear . The two galaxies are connected by a bridge of stars and cosmic dust and are about 418 million light years from the Milky Way . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This galaxy belongs to the class galaxies showing signs of splitting .

Web links

literature

  • Jeff Kanipe and Dennis Webb: The Arp Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - A Chronicle and Observer's Guide , Richmond 2006, ISBN 978-0-943396-76-7

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE