Arp 300
| Galaxy Arp 300 |
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| Hubble Space Telescope (brightness) and Pan-STARRS (color) | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
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Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
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| Right ascension | 09 h 27 m 56.3 s |
| declination | + 68 ° 24 ′ 27 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | DBL SYS |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.9 likes |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.012008 |
| Radial velocity | 3600 km / s |
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Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(165 ± 12) · 10 6 ly (50.7 ± 3.6) Mpc |
| history | |
| Catalog names | |
| UGC 5028/5029 • PGC 26849/26864 • CGCG 332-050 / 332-051 • MCG + 12-09-049 / 050 • IRAS 09235 + 6837 • Arp 300 • Mrk 111 • VV 106 • VII Zw 280 | |
Arp 300 is an interacting pair of galaxies in the constellation Great Bear , about 165 million light years from the Milky Way . Halton Arp organized his catalog of unusual galaxies into groups according to purely morphological criteria. This pair of galaxies belongs to the class Unclassified double galaxies .
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