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Also known as PGC 33992

pair of interacting galaxies NGC 3561A and NGC 3561B

Astronomical data · SIMBAD

Object type
LIN
Redshift
z = 0.02875
Morphology
E5
Coordinates
RA 167.8050° · Dec 28.6964°
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Key facts

Constellation
Ursa Major
Right ascension
11 11 13.2
Declination
+28 ° 41 ′ 47 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity
8804 km/s
Distance
412.3 Mly (126.41 Mpc )
Group or cluster
Abell 1185
Type
A: Sa , B: E5
Apparent size v
1.36 x 0.69

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Encyclopedic overview

NGC 3561, also known as Arp 105, is a pair of interacting galaxies NGC 3561A and NGC 3561B within the galaxy cluster Abell 1185 in Ursa Major. It was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 30 March 1827. Its common name is "the Guitar" and contains a small tidal dwarf galaxy known as Ambartsumian's Knot that is believed to be the remnant of the extensive tidal tail pulled out of one of the galaxies.

One supernova has been observed in NGC 3561A: SN 1953A (type unknown, mag. 16) was discovered by Halton Arp on 16 April 1953.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3561” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.