NGC 2915
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Vinony's link graph records 312 inbound references to NGC 2915, and connects out to epoch, Messier 47 and NGC 2903.
It is catalogued under topics including Chamaeleon, Dwarf irregular galaxies and NGC objects.
Vinony links it to 35 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Constellation
- Chamaeleon
- Right ascension
- 09 26 11.5
- Declination
- −76 ° 37 ′ 35 ″
- Redshift
- 468 ± 3 km/ s
- Distance
- 12.3 Mly (3.78 Mpc )
- Type
- I0
- Apparent size v
- 1.9 ′ × 1.0 ′
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- irregular galaxy
- Constellation
- Chamaeleon
- Distance from Earth
- 3.8
- Image
- NGC2915-hat-R814GB606.jpg
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- Commons category
- NGC 2915
- Commons gallery
- NGC 2915
- discoverer or inventor
- John Frederick William Herschel
- galaxy morphological type
- SBa
- catalog code
- [VDD93] 92
- time of discovery or invention
- 1837-03-31
- redshift
- 0.001561
- apparent magnitude
- 9.826
- right ascension
- 141.5480500
- declination
- -76.6263194
- radial velocity
- 441
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 2915 is a blue dwarf galaxy located 12 million light-years away in the southern constellation Chamaeleon, right on the edge of the Local Group. The optical galaxy corresponds to the core of a much larger spiral galaxy traced by radio observation of neutral hydrogen.
The galaxy has a short central bar, much like the Milky Way and very extended spiral arms. The central disk appears to be rotating in the opposite direction to the extended spiral arms.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 2915” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.