Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte
Sign in to saveThe Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte Galaxy (WLM) is a barred irregular galaxy discovered in 1909 by Max Wolf, located on the outer edges of the Local Group. The discovery of the nature of the galaxy was accredited to Knut Lundmark and Philibert Jacques Melotte in 1926. It is located in the constellation of Cetus.
Key facts
- Galaxy.image
- The WLM galaxy on the edge of the Local Group.jpg
- Galaxy.caption
- The galaxy Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte (WLM), imaged by VLT
- Galaxy.name
- Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte
- Galaxy.epoch
- J2000
- Galaxy.type
- IB(s)m
- Galaxy.appmag_v
- 11.0
- Galaxy.size_v
- 11.5 × 4.2
- Galaxy.constellation name
- Cetus
- Galaxy.names
- WLM, DDO 221, UGCA 444, PGC 143
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Philibert Jacques Melotte
- Constellation
- Cetus
- Distance from Earth
- 0.96
- Image
- Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte - Noao-wlm.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Properties
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The Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte Galaxy (WLM) is a barred irregular galaxy discovered in 1909 by Max Wolf, located on the outer edges of the Local Group. The discovery of the nature of the galaxy was accredited to Knut Lundmark and Philibert Jacques Melotte in 1926. It is located in the constellation of Cetus.
==Properties== Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte is a rotating disk that is seen edge-on. It is relatively isolated from the rest of the Local Group, and does not seem to show much evidence of interaction. However, the rotation curve of Wolf–Lundmark–Melotte is asymmetrical, in that the receding side and approaching side of the galaxy are rotating in different ways.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.