NGC 265
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NGC 265 is an
Tucana. It is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud,[4] a nearby dwarf galaxy. The cluster was discovered by English astronomer John Herschel on April 11, 1834. J. L. E. Dreyer described it as, "faint, pretty small, round", and added it as the 265th entry in his New General Catalogue.[6]
This cluster has an angular
mass of the Sun and is around 250 million years old.[4] The metallicity of the cluster – what astronomers term the abundance of elements with higher atomic number than helium – is at around −0.62, or only 24% of that in the Sun. The turn-off mass for the cluster, when a star of that mass begins to evolve off the main sequence into a giant, is about 4.0 to 4.5 M☉.[7]
See also
References
- ^ Bibcode:1973rncn.book.....S. See the Vizier VII/1B/catalog entry for NGC 265.
- ^ "Magellanic gemstone in the southern sky [NGC 265]". Space Telescope Website. Retrieved 2009-03-02.
- ^ S2CID 55901741. A187.
- ^ hdl:11336/21054.
- ^ "NGC 265". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 2007-04-17.
- ^ Seligman, Courtney. "NGC Objects: NGC 2600 - 2649". Celestial Atlas. Retrieved 2020-09-06.
- S2CID 7596416.
External links
Media related to NGC 265 at Wikimedia Commons- ESA Hubble space telescope site: Hubble picture in information on NGC 265
- HubbleSite NewsCenter: Information on NGC 265 and the Hubble picture
- Nemiroff, R.; Bonnell, J., eds. (1 May 2006). "Open Cluster NGC 290: A Stellar Jewel Box". Astronomy Picture of the Day. NASA. Retrieved 2007-04-17.
