IC 1101
| IC 1101 | |
|---|---|
| Observation data (J2000 epoch) | |
| Constellation | Serpens |
| Right ascension | 15h 10m 56.1s[1] |
| Declination | +05° 44′ 41″[1] |
| Redshift | 23370 ± 30 km/s[1] |
| Distance | 1.07 Gly |
| Apparent magnitude (V) | 14.7[1] |
| Characteristics | |
| Type | S0[1] |
| Number of stars | 100 trillion (1014) |
| Apparent size (V) | 1'.2 × 0'.6[1] |
| Other designations | |
| UGC 9752,[1] PGC 54167[1] | |
IC 1101 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy at the center of the Abell 2029 galaxy cluster. It is 1.07 billion light years away in the constellation of Serpens and is classified as a cD class of galaxy.
Size
The galaxy has a diameter of approximately 6 million light years, which makes it currently (as of 2012) the largest known galaxy in terms of breadth.[2] It is the central galaxy of a massive cluster containing a mass (mostly dark matter) of roughly 100 trillion stars.[3][4] Being more than 50 times the size of the Milky Way and 2000 times as massive, if it were in place of our galaxy, it would swallow up the Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, Andromeda Galaxy, and Triangulum Galaxy. IC 1101 owes its size to many collisions of much smaller galaxies about the size of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxies.
See also
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for IC 1101. Retrieved 2006-11-11.
- ^ http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0004-637X/616/1/178/60597.text.html
- ^ http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0209/0209205v2.pdf
- ^ Uson, Juan M.; Boughn, Stephen P.; Kuhn, Jeffrey R. (1990). "The central galaxy in Abell 2029 - an old supergiant". Science. 250 (4980): 539–540. Bibcode:1990Sci...250..539U. doi:10.1126/science.250.4980.539.
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External links
- Wilford, John Noble (1990-10-26). "Sighting of Largest Galaxy Hints Clues on the Clustering of Matter". New York Times. Retrieved 2010-05-06.
- IC 1101 on WikiSky: DSS2, SDSS, GALEX, IRAS, Hydrogen α, X-Ray, Astrophoto, Sky Map, Articles and images
- The Scale of the Universe (Astronomy Picture of the Day 2012 March 12)
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