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Top left is NE. Image width is about 5 arc min
Image and text © 1982-2002, Anglo-Australian Observatory, photograph by David Malin.
This galaxy is of interest because of its similarity to the Large Magellanic Cloud, (LMC) our nearest extra-galactic neighbour.
Like the LMC, its light comes predominantly from young stars, which are hotter than the Sun and give the galaxy a bluish colour. However, because this galaxy is over 80 million light-years distant we see only the integrated light of millions of unresolved stars, rather than the individuals we see in the LMC. NGC 4027 has a somewhat distorted appearance and an elongated spiral arm, probably due to the gravitational effect of a smaller companion galaxy, not visible in this photograph but rather obvious on a much deeper image. NGC 4027 is less than half a degree south of the Antennae interacting galaxies.
Entry from NGC 2000.0 (R.W. Sinnott, Ed.) © Sky Publishing Corporation, 1988:
NGC 4027 Gx 11 59.5 -19 16 s Crv3.0 11.1 glob. cl. , pF, pL, R, rr, st 16Related Image
n4027_d NGC 4027, deep image
More data about this galaxy is accessible from the hotlinked NGC name and is reproduced
with permission from the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED).
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