NGC 5278
id:
ngc-5278-183-6397566
title:
NGC 5278
text:
NGC 5278 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1789. NGC 5278 is in gravitational interaction with the galaxy NGC 5279. This pair of galaxies appears in the Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies under the symbol Arp 239. The luminosity class of NGC 5278 is II. The nucleus of this galaxy presents a burst of star formation and it is an active Seyfert 2 type galaxy. In addition, NGC 5278 is possibly a LINER galaxy, a
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_5278
date created:
2024-04-22T13:06:00Z
date modified:
2024-09-06T21:45:52Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q1118369","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q1118369"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/05/ARP239-NGC5278-NGC5279-HST-R814GB300.jpg","width":800,"height":640}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16