NGC4631 - The Whale GalaxyPaul Rix
「今日天文:NGC 4631: The Whale Galaxy」 NGC 4631是一个美丽的大旋涡星系.从侧面看,它距离地球只有2,500万光年远.该星系略微扭曲的楔形形状让一些人联想到宇宙的鲱鱼,而对另一些人来说,它的流行绰号是鲸鱼星系...
NGC 4631 is a spiral galaxy seen edge on which shows obvious signs of interaction with the nearby dwarf galaxy seen in the lower part of the image above. The disk is not perfectly flat but shows "warps" on both sides. The different colors in the image represent different states of ...
NGC 4631, also known as the Whale Galaxy, is a magnitude +9.3 edge-on barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Canes Venatici. It has a high surface brightness and therefore is a good target for small scopes. Larger instruments reveal numerous dust clumps and mottling. The central region...
Breitschwerdt, 2001, "Chandra detection of a hot gaseous co- rona around the edge-on galaxy NGC 4631," Astrophys. J. Lett. 555, L99-L102.Wang Q.D., Immler S., Walterbos R., Lauroesch J.T., Breitschwerdt D., Chandra detection of a hot gaseous corona around the edge-on galaxy ...
NGC 3344 - A Face-on Barred Spiral Galaxy in Leo Minor NGC 3628 - the 3rd Galaxy in the Leo Triplet (reprocessed) NGC 3718, NGC 3729, and Hickson 56 in Ursa Major NGC 4038/4039 - The Antennae Galaxies in Corvus NGC 4631 - the Whale Galaxy NGC 4725 - A One Armed Galaxy ...
NGC 4656 NGC 4656和NGC 4657是在猎犬座的一对交互作用星系，这一对星系有时被称为曲棍球棒星系。这两个星系都是NGC 4631星系群的成员。
X-ray Halo Around the Spiral Galaxy NGC 4631 Observed with Suzaku Suzaku observation of the edge-on spiral galaxy NGC 4631 confirmed its X-ray halo extending out to about 10 kpc from the galactic disk. The XIS spectra yielded the temperature and metal abundance for the disk and the halo ...
NGC 4631-27 ("Whale Galaxy" and "calf" in Canes Venatici) NGC 4657 ("Hockey Stick" galaxy in Canes Venatici) NGC 4666 (near twin of "needle" galaxy, in Virgo) NGC 4725 (barred spiral in Coma Berenices) NGC 4762 (edge-on spiral in Virgo) ...