Messier Index/M58

Messier 58 300px An w:infrared image of M58 taken by the w:Spitzer Space Telescope (SST).Credit: SST/w:NASA/w:JPL. w:J2000 VirgoR. W. Sinnott, editor The Complete New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters by J. L. E. Dreyer 1988 Sky Publishing Corporation and Cambridge University Press 0-933-34651-4 SAB(rs)b 12 37 43.5 +11 49 05 68 MlyG. Gavazzi, A. Boselli, M. Scodeggio, D. Pierini and E. Belsole The 3D structure of the Virgo cluster from H-band Fundamental Plane and Tully-Fisher distance determinations Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 1999 304 595–610 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1999MNRAS.304..595G 10.1046/j.1365-8711.1999.02350.x 1519 ± 6 km/s +10.5 5′.9 × 4′.7 NGC 4579, UGC 7796, PGC 42168, VCC 1727 Messier 58 (also known as M58 and NGC 4579) is a w:barred spiral galaxy located approximately 68 million w:light-years away in the w:constellation Virgo. It was discovered by w:Charles Messier in w:1779. Burnham Robert Jr Robert Burnham Jr Burnham's Celestial Handbook: Volume Three, Pavo Through Vulpecula Dover 1978 2086–2088 0-486-23673-0 M58 is one of the brightestMessier Object 58 http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/m/m058.html 2006-11-18 http://web.archive.org/web/19961225122016/http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/messier/m/m058.html 1996-12-25 galaxies in the w:Virgo Cluster. Two w:supernovae, w:SN 1988A and w:SN 1989M, have been observed in M58.NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database Results for NGC 4579 http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ 2006-10-05 External links SEDS Messier: M58 Spitzer Space Telescope page on Messier 58 References