Celestial hemisphere:  Northern  ·  Constellation: Camelopardalis (Cam)  ·  Contains:  NGC 2146
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NGC 2146, Rich Sornborger
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NGC 2146

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NGC 2146

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riedrich August Theodor Winnecke discovered this peculiar galaxy in 1876. It is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Camleopardis, galaxy type SB(S)ab pec.
The galaxy's most conspicuous feature is the dusty lanes of a spiral arm lying across the core of the galaxy as seen from Earth, the arm having been bent 45 degrees by a close encounter with a smaller galaxy possibly NGC 2146a about 0.8 billion years ago.This close encounter is credited with the relatively high rates of star formation that qualify NGC 2146 as a starburst galaxy. It has a diameter of 70,000 - 80,000 lyr.It has been host to two known supernova events:
  • SN 2005V, a type Ib/c supernova discovered by LIRIS on 30 January 2005.
  • SN 2018zd, a type II supernova (possibly type IIn and maybe the first electron-capture supernova), was discovered on 2 March 2018 by Koichi Itagaki.


Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_2146

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NGC 2146, Rich Sornborger

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