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Q1047876

interacting galaxy

Key facts

Constellation: Cepheus
Right ascension: 07 27 13.9755
Declination: +85 ° 45 ′ 15.877 ″
Heliocentric radial velocity: 2,417 ± 1 km/s
Distance: 120 Mly (36.8 Mpc )
Type: SAB(rs)c
Size: ~57,100 ly (17.51 kpc ) (estimated)
Apparent size v: 2.8′ × 2.7′

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Distance from Earth: 36.96
Image: Heic2106a.tif

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NGC 2276 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Cepheus. The galaxy lies 120 million light-years away from Earth. NGC 2276 has an asymmetrical appearance, most likely caused by gravitational interactions with its neighbor, elliptical galaxy NGC 2300. NGC 2276 is traveling with an orbital velocity of about 968 km/s relative to the NGC 2300 group of galaxies. Trailing NGC 2276 is a long tail of interstellar medium about 300,000 light-years (100,000 pc) long, formed by ram pressure stripping.

One of the many starburst spiral arms contains an intermediate mass black hole with 50,000 times the mass of the Sun, named NGC 2276-3c. NGC 2276-3c has produced two jets: a large-scale radio jet, approximately 2,000 light years long, and an "inner jet" about 6 light years long. The galaxy shows an enhanced rate of star formation that may have been triggered by a collision with a dwarf galaxy, or by the gravitational interaction with its neighbor compressing gas and dust.