NGC 2959 is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. Its velocity relative to the cosmic microwave background is 4,525 ± 6 km/s, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of 66.7 ± 4.7 Mpc (~218 million light years.). NGC 2959 was discovered by British astronomer John Herschel on 28 October 1831.
NGC 2959 has a luminosity class of I-II and a broad H I line.
According to the Simbad database, NGC 2959 is a LINER galaxy, i.e. a galaxy whose nucleus has an emission spectrum characterized by broad lines of weakly ionized atoms.
Supernovae
Two supernovae have been observed in NGC 2959:
- SN 2021bbm (type II, mag. 17.412) was discovered by ATLAS on 24 January 2021.
- SN 2023vog (type II, mag. 18.5768) was discovered by Automatic Learning for the Rapid Classification of Events (ALeRCE) on 21 October 2023.
See also
- List of NGC objects (2001–3000)
References
External links
- Media related to NGC 2959 at Wikimedia Commons
- NGC 2959 on WikiSky: DSS2, SDSS, GALEX, IRAS, Hydrogen α, X-Ray, Astrophoto, Sky Map, Articles and images
