NGC 906

NGC 906
Pan-STARRS image of NGC 906
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Andromeda
Right ascension	02^h 25^m 16.255^s[1]
Declination	+42° 05′ 23.48″[1]
Redshift	0.01561[2]
Heliocentric radial velocity	4643 km/s[2]
Distance	207.5 Mly (63.62 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (V)	12.71[4]
Apparent magnitude (B)	13.76[2]
Absolute magnitude (V)	−21.0[4]
Characteristics
Type	SBab[4]
Other designations
UGC 1868, MCG +07-06-012, PGC 9188[2]

NGC 906 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda in the northern sky. It is estimated to be 215 million light years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of approximately 110,000 ly. NGC 906 was discovered on October 30, 1878 by astronomer Édouard Stephan.^[5][6]

See also

• List of NGC objects (1–1000)

References

1. Skrutskie, Michael F.; Cutri, Roc M.; Stiening, Rae; Weinberg, Martin D.; Schneider, Stephen E.; Carpenter, John M.; Beichman, Charles A.; Capps, Richard W.; Chester, Thomas; Elias, Jonathan H.; Huchra, John P.; Liebert, James W.; Lonsdale, Carol J.; Monet, David G.; Price, Stephan; Seitzer, Patrick; Jarrett, Thomas H.; Kirkpatrick, J. Davy; Gizis, John E.; Howard, Elizabeth V.; Evans, Tracey E.; Fowler, John W.; Fullmer, Linda; Hurt, Robert L.; Light, Robert M.; Kopan, Eugene L.; Marsh, Kenneth A.; McCallon, Howard L.; Tam, Robert; Van Dyk, Schuyler D.; Wheelock, Sherry L. (1 February 2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708. ISSN 0004-6256. S2CID 18913331.
2. "NGC 906". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
3. Crook, Aidan C.; Huchra, John P.; Martimbeau, Nathalie; Masters, Karen L.; Jarrett, Tom; Macri, Lucas M. (2007). "Groups of Galaxies in the Two Micron All Sky Redshift Survey". The Astrophysical Journal. 655 (2): 790–813. arXiv:astro-ph/0610732. Bibcode:2007ApJ...655..790C. doi:10.1086/510201. S2CID 11672751.
4. "Results for object NGC 0906 (NGC 906)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2020-05-25.
5. Ford, Dominic. "The galaxy NGC 906 - In-The-Sky.org". in-the-sky.org. Retrieved 2020-03-23.
6. "Revised NGC Data for NGC 906". spider.seds.org. Retrieved 2020-03-23.

External links

• Media related to NGC 906 at Wikimedia Commons