NGC 4485
NGC 4485 is an irregular galaxy located in the northern constellation of Canes Venatici. It was discovered January 14, 1788 by William Herschel. This galaxy is located at a distance of 29 million light years and is receding with a heliocentric radial velocity of 483 km/s.
NGC 4485 is interacting with the spiral galaxy NGC 4490 and as a result both galaxies are distorted and are undergoing intense star formation. They have a projected separation of 9.3 kpc and are surrounded by an extended hydrogen envelope with a dense bridge of gas joining the two. Both galaxies are otherwise isolated and of low mass. The star formation rate in NGC 4485 is 0.22 M☉·yr.
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NGC 4485 and NGC 4490.
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Interaction between them created a stream of material about 25 000 light-years long.
References
- ^ "Starbursts in the wake of a fleeting romance". ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ^ Skrutskie, Michael F.; et al. (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.
- ^ "NGC 4485". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
- ^ Tully, R. Brent; et al. (2016). "Cosmicflows-3". The Astronomical Journal. 152 (2): 21. arXiv:1605.01765. Bibcode:2016AJ....152...50T. doi:10.3847/0004-6256/152/2/50. S2CID 250737862. 50.
- ^ "Results for object NGC 4485 (NGC 4485)". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. California Institute of Technology. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
- ^ Seligman, Courtney. "NGC Objects: NGC 4450 - 4499". Celestial Atlas. Retrieved 2021-12-26.
- ^ Pearson, Sarah; et al. (November 2018). "Modelling the baryon cycle in low-mass galaxy encounters: the case of NGC 4490 and NGC 4485". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 480 (3): 3069–3090. arXiv:1807.03791. Bibcode:2018MNRAS.480.3069P. doi:10.1093/mnras/sty2052.
- ^ "Hubble Observes Creative Destruction as Galaxies Collide". www.spacetelescope.org. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
External links
- Media related to NGC 4485 at Wikimedia Commons