NGC 2998

NGC 2998 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major.[5] It is 195 million light-years (59.7 megaparsecs) away from the Earth.[3] It is an intermediate spiral galaxy.[5]

NGC 2998
SDSS image of NGC 2998
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Constellation	Ursa Major
Right ascension	09^h 48^m 43.630^s[1]
Declination	+44° 04′ 52.63″[1]
Redshift	0.01591[2]
Helio radial velocity	4732 ± 3[2]
Distance	195 Mly (59.7 Mpc)[3]
Apparent magnitude (B)	13.3[4]
Characteristics
Type	SAB(rs)c[5]
Apparent size (V)	1.080′ × 0.562′[1]
Other designations
NGC 2998, UGC 5250, MCG+07-20-051, PGC 28196[4]

See also

• List of NGC objects (2001–3000)

References

1. Skrutskie, M.; et al. (2006). "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)". The Astronomical Journal. 131 (2): 1163–1183. Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S. doi:10.1086/498708.
2. Ahn, C. P.; et al. (2009). "The Ninth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-III Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey". The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. 203 (2): 21. arXiv:1207.7137. Bibcode:2012ApJS..203...21A. doi:10.1088/0067-0049/203/2/21.
3. Tully, R. Brent; Courtois, Hélène M.; Sorce, Jenny G. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal. 152 (2): 21. arXiv:1605.01765. Bibcode:2016AJ....152...50T. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50. 50.
4. "NGC 2998". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
5. "NED results for object NGC 2998". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. Retrieved 5 October 2018.

External links

• Media related to NGC 2998 at Wikimedia Commons

• NGC 2998 on WikiSky: DSS2, SDSS, GALEX, IRAS, Hydrogen α, X-Ray, Astrophoto, Sky Map, Articles and images