UGC 5497

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Galaxy
UGC 5497 / PGC 29735
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The dwarf galaxy UGC 5497 captured by the Hubble space telescope [1]
The dwarf galaxy UGC 5497 imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope
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Constellation Big Bear
Position
equinoxJ2000.0 , epoch : J2000.0
Right ascension 10 h 12 m 48.0 s
declination + 64 ° 06 ′ 28 ″
Appearance
Morphological type BCD / diffuse  
Angular expansion 1 ′, 1 × 1 ′, 1
Physical data
Redshift 0.000502  
Radial velocity 150 km / s  
Stroke distance
v rad  / H 0
(11 ± 1)  x  10 6  ly
(3.30 ± 0.24)  Mpc 
history
Catalog names
UGC  5497 • PGC  29735 • CGCG  313-005 • MCG  + 11-13-007 • NSA 12648

UGC 5497 = PGC 29735 is a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Great Bear in the northern sky . It is estimated to be 11 million light years from the Milky Way . It belongs to the M81 galaxy group.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b Compact Blue Dwarf Can't Hide . In: ESA / Hubble Picture of the Week . Retrieved June 11, 2012. 
  2. a b c d e NASA / IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE
  3. Kristin Chiboucas, Igor D. Karachentsev, R. Brent Tully: Discovery of New Dwarf Galaxies in the M81 Group , bibcode : 2009AJ .... 137.3009C