Often photographed by amateurs and professionals alike, this galaxy reveals vast lanes of dust, which are clearly visible in the HST image below as dark brown streaks.
The group is one of the closest groups of galaxies to the Local Group; the distance to the center of the group from the Milky Way is approximately 3.9 Mpc (12.7 Mly)..
Only some of the group members are visible from Aberdeenshire, UK. The Sculptor Galaxy, also known as the Silver Coin or Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. The galaxy is a member of the ~, a loose group of galaxies located near the south galactic pole in the constellations Sculptor and Cetus. [12] The Sculptor Galaxy (the brightest galaxy in the group) and the companion galaxies NGC 247, PGC 2881, PGC 2933, Sculptor-dE1, and UGCA 15 form a gravitationally bound core near the center of the group. The Sculptor Galaxy lies at the centre of the Sculptor Group, one of the nearest galaxy groups to the Milky Way. It is the brightest galaxy in the group and, along with companion galaxies NGC 247 and several others to which it is gravitationally bound it forms the core of the group. The Sculptor Group is a group of galaxies in Cetus-Sculptor, 8-12 mly away from our Milky Way Galaxy.
The Sculptor Galaxy (also known as the Silver Dollar Galaxy or NGC 253) is a bright intermediate spiral galaxy of about 70 thousand light-years across that lies some 11,4 million light-years away in the southern constellation Sculptor, while it is moving away from us at approximately 243 kilometers per second. The nearest galaxy in this group is NGC 55 which at a distance of 5 million light years lies on the border of the Local Group.
The Sculptor Galaxy is a starburst galaxy, which means that it is currently undergoing a period of intense star formation.
The Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) and a few other galaxies form a gravitationally-bound core in the center of this group. It is an obvious group of galaxies because it contains several of the brightest galaxies in the sky (although they are all too faint to be seen with the naked eye). The Sculptor Group is a loose group of galaxies visible near the south galactic pole. Part of the Sculptor group, NGC 253 lies only about four times as far as the M 31 spiral in our local group. The Sculptor Galaxy, also known as the Silver Coin or Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor.
The Sculptor Galaxy is located at the center of the Sculptor Group, one of the nearest groups of galaxies to the Milky Way. The Sculptor Group of Galaxies (also South Polar Group) This is the closest group of galaxies to our Local Group, at only about 10 million light years distance.It is named the Sculptor Group as it is centered in the Southern constellation Sculptor, and South Polar Group as its members are grouped around the South galactic pole (which is at RA 00:51.4, Dec -27:07 (2000.0)). Therefore, studying NGC 300 should indicate how, exactly, a normal spiral galaxy works.
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