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NGC 90
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barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda
Key facts
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Right ascension
- 00 21 51.4
- Declination
- +22 ° 24 ′ 00 ″
- Heliocentric radial velocity
- 5353 ± 10 km/s
- Distance
- 333.8 ± 146 Mly , (102.35 ± 44.76 Mpc )
- Type
- SAB(s)c pec
- Mass
- ~4.9 × 10^10 M⊙ M ☉
- Apparent size v
- 2.4' x 0.91'
- Notable features
- Interaction with NGC 93, tidal tails and large H I cloud
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- barred spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- Andromeda
- Distance from Earth
- 72.20
- Image
- NGC 0090 2MASS.jpg
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- redshift
- 0.017856
- catalog code
- LEDA 1405
- discoverer or inventor
- William Parsons, 3rd Earl of Rosse
- time of discovery or invention
- 1854-10-26
- apparent magnitude
- 10.959
- galaxy morphological type
- S
- right ascension
- 5.4642042
- declination
- 22.4000417
- radial velocity
- 5305
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Encyclopedic overview
NGC 90 is a grand-design spiral galaxy estimated to be about 333 million light years (102 megaparsecs) away in the constellation of Andromeda. The galaxy is currently interacting with NGC 93 and exhibits two highly elongated and distorted spiral arms. These arms have bright blue star clusters which is indicative of star formation, likely caused by the interaction with its neighbor. NGC 90 and NGC 93 form the interacting galaxy pair Arp 65 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Its interaction with NGC 93 has caused it produced characteristic similar to jellyfish galaxies such as tidal tails and escaping clouds of gas.
It was discovered by R. J. Mitchell in 1854 and its apparent magnitude is 13.7.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “NGC 90” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.