Antennae Galaxies

The Antennae galaxies form a pair of strongly interacting with each other galaxies in the constellation raven. The pair consists of the two galaxies NGC 4038 and NGC 4039th

  • NGC 4038 has a surface area of 5.2 ' x 3.1 ' and an apparent magnitude of 10.30 mag.
  • NGC 4039 has a surface area of 3.1 ' x 1.6 ' and an apparent magnitude of 10.40 mag.

The merger of the two galaxies in particular the interstellar gas is compressed and star formation induced. The star-forming regions thus formed and the associated emission nebula are visible as bright knots in the spiral arms. The Antennae galaxies were discovered on February 7, 1785 by William Herschel.

Declination Radial velocity New General Catalogue Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies IRAS Uppsala General Catalogue Galaxy List of NGC objects NGC 4027 NGC 4030
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