Astronomical data · SIMBAD
- Object type
- LIN
- Redshift
- z = 0.01579
- Coordinates
- RA 147.3927° · Dec 44.1027°
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Key facts
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Right ascension
- 09 49 34.261
- Declination
- +44 ° 06 ′ 09.71 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 4783 km/s
- Distance
- 240.5 ± 16.9 Mly (73.73 ± 5.18 Mpc )
- Group or cluster
- NGC 2998 group
- Type
- S0/a
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Ursa Major
- Image
- NGC 3008 SDSS.jpg
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- right ascension
- 147.39274841529370
- catalog code
- Gaia DR2 820122085322686080
- declination
- 44.10269642931640
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1851-01-25
- galaxy morphological type
- S?
- radial velocity
- 4783
- apparent magnitude
- 13.332
- Commons category
- NGC 3008
- redshift
- 0.01579
- epoch
- J2000.0
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 3008 is a lenticular galaxy with an active galactic nucleus in the constellation of Ursa Major, discovered by William Parsons and his assistants. It is about 40 thousand light years across, and with a recessional velocity of about 4,785 kilometers per second, is at a distance of 240 million light-years from the Sun.
It is a member of the NGC 2998 group, which also includes NGC 2998, NGC 3002, NGC 3005, NGC 3006, and a few others. Among these galaxies, it has the lowest star formation rate, at 0.02 M☉ per year.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 3008” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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