| ING Media Archival Record |
| ITEM REFERENCE | 1949 |
| PERMANENT LINK | https://astro.ing.iac.es/outreach/?1949 |
| EXTACCESS | yes |
| COLLECTION | Image archive |
| TITLE | M 99 or NGC 4254 Galaxy. |
| KEYWORDS | Galaxies;Galaxies;Messier |
| DATE | 2000-01-01 |
| DESCRIPTION | M99, although situated in constellation Coma Berenices, is one of the bright spiral members of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. It is of type Sc, rotates clockwise (unlike the nearby spiral M100), and is unusually asymmetric, the nucleus shifted to the upper end of our picture. It is moving through the Virgo Cluster with a high proper (or peculiar) velocity of at least about 1200 km/sec, by chance in a direction pointing away from us. Jacobus Kapteyn Telescope. B, I and H-alpha bands. |
| CREDIT | Johan Knapen and Nik Szymanek. |
| TELESCOPE | JKT |
| INSTRUMENT | JKTCCD |
| THUMB_75 | 
https://www.ing.iac.es/PR/newsletter/news6/johan7ss.jpg |
| AVAILABLE FILES | JPG (85K)
TIF (18.9M) |
| TIMESTAMP | 2024-08-30 22:41:42 |
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