{"id":849,"date":"2025-10-18T00:17:59","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/?p=849"},"modified":"2025-10-18T00:17:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T00:17:59","slug":"ngc-660","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/2025\/10\/18\/ngc-660\/","title":{"rendered":"NGC 660"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Wikipedia Description: NGC 660<\/strong> is a peculiar<\/a> and unique polar-ring galaxy<\/a> located approximately 45 million light-years<\/a> from Earth<\/a> in the Pisces constellation<\/a>.[3]<\/a><\/sup> It is the only such galaxy having, as its host, a “late-type lenticular galaxy<\/a>“.[4]<\/a><\/sup> It was probably formed when two galaxies collided<\/a> a billion years ago.[5]<\/a><\/sup> However, it may have first started as a disk galaxy<\/a> that captured matter from a passing galaxy. This material could have, over time, become “strung out” to form a rotating ring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The ring is not actually polar, but rather has an inclination<\/a> from the plane of the host disk of approximately 45 degrees.[4]<\/a><\/sup> The extreme number of pinkish star-forming areas that occurs along the galaxy’s ring could be the result of the gravitation<\/a> interaction caused by this collision. The ring is 50,000 light-years across \u2013 much broader than the disk itself \u2013 and has a greater amount of gas<\/a> and star formation than the host disk. This likely indicates a very violent origin. The polar ring contains objects numbering in the hundreds, many of which are red and blue supergiant stars<\/a>. The most recently created stars in the ring are approximately 7 million years old. This indicates that the formation of these stars has been a long process and is still occurring.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Late in 2012, this polar-ring galaxy produced an enormous outburst having a magnitude<\/a> of approximately ten times brighter than a supernova<\/a> explosion. The cause is not certain, but this event may have resulted from a tremendous jet being emanated from the galaxy’s central black hole<\/a>.[5]<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Acquisition Details:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Telescope<\/td>Takahashi TOA-130<\/td><\/tr>
Optics<\/td>Takahashi TOA-645 Flattener<\/td><\/tr>
Filter<\/td>None<\/td><\/tr>
Camera<\/td>ASI2600MC Pro OSC<\/td><\/tr>
Integration Time<\/td>7.5 hours<\/td><\/tr>
Subframes<\/td>150 x 180 seconds<\/td><\/tr>
Date<\/td>October 15, 2025<\/td><\/tr>
Location<\/td>Carlsbad, California<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wikipedia Description: NGC 660 is a peculiar and unique polar-ring galaxy located approximately 45 million light-years from Earth in the Pisces constellation.[3] It is the only such galaxy having, as its host, a “late-type lenticular galaxy“.[4] It was probably formed when two galaxies collided a billion years ago.[5] However, it may have first started as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":846,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everything","category-galaxies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":850,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849\/revisions\/850"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lonepeak.space\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}