NGC 3310

NGC 3310 is a grand design spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is a starburst galaxy and it is likely that NGC 3310 collided with one of its satellite galaxies about 100 million years ago, triggering widespread star formation. It is thought to be located approximately 46 million light-years away from the Earth, and is thought to be about 22,000 light-years wide.

NGC 3310
NGC 3310, as taken by Hubble Space Telescope
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
ConstellationUrsa Major
Right ascension 10h 38m 45.857s[1]
Declination+53° 30′ 11.89″[1]
Redshift0.003309[2]
Distance34.8 Mly (10.66 Mpc)[2]
Apparent magnitude (V)11.2[3]
Characteristics
TypeSAB(r)bc pec[3] or SAcd[2]
Apparent size (V)3′.1 × 2′.4[3]
Other designations
UGC 5786, PGC 31650, Arp 217, VV 356, VV 406[3]

The ring clusters of NGC 3310 have been undergoing starburst activity for at least the last 40 million years.[4]

References
  1. Skrutskie, M. F.; et al. (February 2006), "The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)", The Astronomical Journal, 131 (2): 1163–1183, Bibcode:2006AJ....131.1163S, doi:10.1086/498708
  2. Ann, H. B.; et al. (2015), "A Catalog of Visually Classified Galaxies in the Local (z ∼ 0.01) Universe", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 217 (2): 27–49, arXiv:1502.03545, Bibcode:2015ApJS..217...27A, doi:10.1088/0067-0049/217/2/27.
  3. "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 3310. Retrieved 2006-11-08.
  4. de Grijs, R.; Anders, P.; Bastian, N.; Lynds, R.; et al. (2003). "Star cluster formation and evolution in nearby starburst galaxies - II. Initial conditions". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 343 (4): 1285–1300. arXiv:astro-ph/0305184. Bibcode:2003MNRAS.343.1285D. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06777.x.

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