NGC 5256
| Galaxy NGC 5256 |
|
|---|---|
.jpg)
|
|
| Photo from the Hubble Space Telescope | |
| AladinLite | |
| Constellation | Big Bear |
|
Position equinox : J2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0 |
|
| Right ascension | 13 h 38 m 17.5 s |
| declination | + 48 ° 16 ′ 37 ″ |
| Appearance | |
| Morphological type | Pec; Sy2; LIRG Sbrst |
| Brightness (visual) | 13.1 mag |
| Brightness (B-band) | 13.9 likes |
| Angular expansion | 1.2 ′ × 1.1 ′ |
| Position angle | 30 ° |
| Surface brightness | 13.3 mag / arcmin² |
| Physical data | |
| Redshift | 0.027863 ± 0.000043 |
| Radial velocity | (8353 ± 13) km / s |
|
Stroke distance v rad / H 0 |
(377 ± 26) · 10 6 ly (115.7 ± 8.1) Mpc |
| history | |
| discovery | Wilhelm Herschel |
| Discovery date | May 12, 1787 |
| Catalog names | |
| NGC 5256 • UGC 8632 • PGC 48192 • CGCG 246-021 • MCG + 08-25-031 • IRAS 13362 + 4831 • Mrk 266 • GC 3623 • H III 673 • h 1656 • KCPG 388A • I Zw 67 | |
NGC 5256 are two colliding galaxies in the constellation Great Bear , which are approximately 377 million light years from the Milky Way .
The object was discovered on May 12, 1787 by the German-British astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Herschel .
Web links
Commons : NGC 5256 - collection of images, videos, and audio files
