Galaxy, NGC 5906, UGC 09801, PGC 054470, MCG +09-25-040
[1]NGC 5907 (also known as
Knife Edge Galaxy or
Splinter Galaxy) is a
spiral galaxy located approximately 50 million
light years from
Earth.
[2]It has an anomalously low
metallicity and few detectable
giant stars, being apparently composed almost entirely of
dwarf stars.
[3] It is a member of the
NGC 5866 Group.NGC 5907 has long been considered a prototypical example of a warped spiral in relative isolation. In 2006, an international team of astronomers announced the presence of an extended tidal stream surrounding the galaxy that challenges this picture and suggests the gravitational perturbations induced by the stream progenitor may be the cause for the warp.
The galaxy was discovered in 1788 by
William Herschel.
Supernova 1940A was in this galaxy.
[4]An
ultraluminous X-ray source is located in the galaxy.
[5]
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