NGC 895 — Sc in Cetus
Sc in Cetus, 3.3 arcminutes across, its light 110 million years old. Measured by HyperLEDA, photographed by Pan-STARRS1. Recorded once.
About NGC 895
What you are looking at
NGC 895 is a late-type spiral: a small central bulge and open, loosely wound arms full of young stars and star-forming gas. It is tilted about 49° to our line of sight, enough to show both the shape of its arms and the depth of its disc. From edge to edge its visible disc spans about 106,000 light-years, close to the width of the Milky Way.
What astronomers have recorded
SIMBAD, the reference database astronomers use, classes it as a Seyfert galaxy: its nucleus is lit by gas falling into its central black hole, though dust hides part of that glow from us. One supernova has been recorded in it: SN 2003id. It is cited in 167 scientific papers indexed by SIMBAD, and recorded there under 18 different catalogue designations.
When this light set out
Its light has been travelling for about 110 million years. When it left, the first flowering plants had appeared. The galaxy is moving away from us at about 2,289 km/s (5.1 million mph), carried by the expansion of the universe.
Finding it in the sky
NGC 895 lies in Cetus. It is best placed on winter evenings: around 9:30 pm in December it stands about 44° high in the south, seen from the middle of the United States.
By apparent size it is number 407 of the 12,657 galaxies on the Galaxy Origins register.
Measurements
| Catalogue | PGC 8974 |
|---|---|
| Morphological type | Sc |
| Angular diameter | 3.33′ |
| Right ascension | 02h21m36.5s |
| Declination | -05°31′17.0″ |
| Constellation | Cetus |
| Inclination | 49.0° |
| Light travel time | 110 million years |
| Bar | not recorded |
Check every figure above in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database
What is sold
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At 3.3 arcminutes this is a Exceptional galaxy, which is the tier where a real photograph shows clear structure and dust lanes. The tier comes from the measured diameter, not from a price list.
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