What type of galaxy is NGC 5866?

lenticular galaxy
Classified as a lenticular galaxy, NGC 5866 has numerous and complex dust lanes appearing dark and red, while many of the bright stars in the disk give it a more blue underlying hue.

How many spindle galaxies are there?

NGC 5866 is one of the two galaxies known as the Spindle Galaxy. The other, NGC 3115, is an edge-on lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Serpens.

Which type of galaxy is lenticular?

A lenticular galaxy (denoted S0) is a type of galaxy intermediate between an elliptical (denoted E) and a spiral galaxy in galaxy morphological classification schemes. It contains a large-scale disc but does not have large-scale spiral arms.

Where is NGC 5866?

Northern constellation Draco
NGC 5866 lies in the Northern constellation Draco, at a distance of 44 million light-years (13.5 Megaparsecs). It has a diameter of roughly 60,000 light-years (18,400 parsecs) only two-thirds the diameter of the Milky Way, although its mass is similar to our galaxy.

How old is NGC 5866?

NGC 5866 (also called the Spindle Galaxy or Messier 102) is a relatively bright lenticular galaxy in the constellation Draco. NGC 5866 was most likely discovered by Pierre Méchain or Charles Messier in 1781, and independently found by William Herschel in 1788.

How big is NGC 5866?

30,000 light years
NGC 5866/Radius

Why is Messier 102 not included?

Because Messier was only interested in finding comets, he created this list of non-comet objects that frustrated his hunt for them. However, Messier didn’t include the coordinates of M102 on his catalogue, leading to confusion about the exact object they observed.

How far is M102 from Earth?

49.9 million light years
NGC 5866/Distance to Earth

Do lenticular galaxies have black holes?

This paper reports something on a much larger scale — an over-massive black hole of 17 billion solar masses that makes up 59\% of the bulge mass of the compact lenticular galaxy NGC 1277. Five other compact galaxies have properties similar to those of NGC 1277, and these may also contain over-sized black holes.

How many lenticular galaxies are there?

75 lenticular galaxies
Among the 75 lenticular galaxies listed in Table 2 there is also no evidence for a significant difference in the distribution of S0 flattenings between the cluster, group, and field environments.

How old is the Spindle Galaxy?

The Spindle galaxy is located 50 million light-years away and has a radius of 70,000 light-years. It’s estimated to contain about 100 billion stars….M102 Data Table.

Who discovered Messier 110?

astronomer Charles Messier
Messier 110 lies approximately 2.6 million light-years away in the constellation of Andromeda. This galaxy was discovered by the French astronomer Charles Messier on August 10, 1773.