Triangulum Galaxy
Galaxy Messier 33 in Triangulum (the Triangulum Galaxy)
Observation data (J2000 epoch)
Pronunciation/traɪˈæŋɡjʊləm/
ConstellationTriangulum
Right ascension01 33 50.021
Declination+30° 39′ 36.7″1
Redshift-0.000607 ± 0.0000101
Heliocentric radial velocity-179 ± 3 km/s2
Galactocentric velocity-44 ± 6 km/s2
Distance883 kpc (2.88 Mly)3
Apparent magnitude (V)5.721
Characteristics
TypeSA(s)cd2
Mass5×104 M
Number of stars40 billion (4×10)5
Size61,120 ly
(18.74 kpc)
(diameter; 25.0 mag/arcsec B-band isophote)65
Apparent size (V)70.8 × 41.7 arcminutes1
H I scale length (physical)36.2 kpc
(118,100 ly)7
Other designations
IRAS 01310+3024, NGC 598, UGC 1117, MCG +05-04-069, PGC 5818, CGCG 502-1102

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Footnotes

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  2. “Results for NGC 598”. NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. NASA/IPAC/JPL. Retrieved 2006-12-01. 2 3 4

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  4. Corbelli, Edvige (June 2003). “Dark matter and visible baryons in M33”. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 342 (1): 199–207. arXiv:astro-ph/0302318. Bibcode:2003MNRAS.342..199C. doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06531.x. S2CID 119383732.

  5. Michon, Gerard P. “Sizing up the Universe - Stars, Sand and Nucleons”. Retrieved 2010-01-07. 2

  6. De Vaucouleurs, Gerard; De Vaucouleurs, Antoinette; Corwin, Herold G.; Buta, Ronald J.; Paturel, Georges; Fouque, Pascal (1991). Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies. Bibcode:1991rc3..book…D.

  7. Gilbert, Karoline M.; Quirk, Amanda C. N.; Guhathakurta, Puragra; Tollerud, Erik; Wojno, Jennifer; Dalcanton, Julianne J.; Durbin, Meredith J.; Seth, Anil; Williams, Benjamin F.; Fung, Justin T.; Tangirala, Pujita; Yusufali, Ibrahim (2022). “The TREX Survey: Kinematical Complexity Throughout M33’s Stellar Disk and Evidence for a Stellar Halo”. The Astrophysical Journal. 924 (2): 116. arXiv:2110.15773. Bibcode:2022ApJ…924..116G. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac3480.