Messier 99 or M99, also known as NGC 4254 or St. Catherine's Wheel, is a grand design spiral galaxy in the northern constellation Coma Berenices approximately 15,000,000 parsecs (49,000,000 light-years) from the Milky Way. [5] It was discovered by …

2024年1月29日 · NGC 4254 is 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. Learn more about what can be seen in this vast collection of Webb images here. [Image description: Webb’s image of NGC 4254 shows a densely populated face-on spiral galaxy anchored by its central region, which is right of centre.

2024年2月13日 · NGC 4254, a spiral galaxy, is resplendent in orange and blue in this Jan. 29, 2024, image from the James Webb Space Telescope. This is one of 19 nearby spiral galaxies recently imaged by the telescope as part of the long-standing Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program supported by more than 150 astronomers worldwide.

2024年1月29日 · Face-on spiral galaxy, NGC 4254, is split diagonally in this image: The James Webb Space Telescope’s observations appear at top left, and the Hubble Space Telescope’s on bottom right. Webb and Hubble’s images show a striking …

The galaxy NGC 4254 (M99) belongs to the Hubble class SA (s)c. Its disk is inclined by 42° with respect to the sky plane. This galaxy has a distance median value of 15.6 Mpc. The southern spiral arm is very bright in radio polarization. Total Intensity at 6.2 cm (4.86 GHz), Effelsberg, Resolution 153'', Chyży et al. 2007.

2024年2月14日 · NGC 4254, a spiral galaxy, is resplendent in orange and blue in this Jan. 29, 2024, image from the James Webb Space Telescope. This is one of 19 nearby spiral galaxies recently imaged by the telescope as part of the long-standing Physics at High Angular resolution in Nearby GalaxieS (PHANGS) program supported by more than 150 astronomers worldwide.

2015年8月28日 · Messier 99 (M99, NGC 4254), also known as the Coma Pinwheel or Virgo Cluster Pinwheel, is an unbarred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Coma Berenices.

2024年1月29日 · Image description: Webb’s image of NGC 4254 shows a densely populated face-on spiral galaxy anchored by its central region, which has a light blue haze that takes up about a quarter of the view. In this circular core is the brightest blue area. Within the core are populations of older stars, represented by many pinpoints of blue light.

NGC 4254 is a Spiral Galaxy located in the constellation of Coma Berenices in the northern hemisphere. NGC 4254's distance from Earth is 49,552,938.46 light years. NGC 4254 is called NGC 4254 in the New General Catalogue (NGC).

f the surroundings of the strongly asymmetric Virgo cluster Sc galaxy NGC 4254. Noted previously for its lopsided appearance, rich interstellar medium, and extradisk HI emission, NGC 4254 is b