NGC 992 is a spiral galaxy in the Aries constellation and is estimated to be 188 million light years from the Milky Way. NGC 992 was discovered by astronomers Lewis A. Swift on September 6, 1886.[5][6]
| NGC 992 | |
|---|---|
 SDSS image of NGC 992 | |
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Aries |
| Right ascension | 02h 37m 25.491s[1] |
| Declination | +21° 06′ 03.04″[1] |
| Redshift | 0.01376[2] |
| Heliocentric radial velocity | 4098 km/s[2] |
| Distance | 188.1 ± 13.2 Mly (57.67 ± 4.04 Mpc)[3] |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 15.13[4] |
| Apparent magnitude (B) | 15.53[4] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | SBc[4] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 2103, MCG +03-07-035, PGC 9938[2] | |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331.
- ^ a b c "NGC 992". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ "Results for object NGC 0992 (NGC 992)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ a b c "Search specification: NGC 992". HyperLeda. Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 992 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
- ^ "Revised NGC Data for NGC 992". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-24.
External links
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Media related to NGC 992 at Wikimedia Commons
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