Messier Index/M110

Messier 110McConnachie, A. W.; Irwin, M. J.; Ferguson, A. M. N.; Ibata, R. A.; Lewis, G. F.; Tanvir, N. Distances and metallicities for 17 Local Group galaxies Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2005 356 4 979–997 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2005MNRAS.356..979M 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.08514.x M 110. Credit: John Lanoue w:J2000 AndromedaR. 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 00 40 22.1NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database Results for NGC 205 http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ 2006-11-29 +41 41 07 8.92 E5 pec NGC 0205, PGC 002429, MCG +07-02-014, IRAS 00376+4124, LEDA 2429 Messier 110 (also known as M110 and NGC 205) is a w:dwarf elliptical galaxy that is a satellite of the w:Andromeda Galaxy.A. Sandage, J. Bedke 1994 Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies Carnegie Institution of Washington Washington, D.C. 0-87279-667-1 M110 contains some dust and hints of recent star formation, which is unusual for dwarf elliptical galaxies in general. History M110 was serendipitously discovered on August 10, 1773 by w:Charles Messier, who was making observations of the Andromeda Galaxy at the time.K. G. Jones 1991 Messier's Nebulae and Star Clusters 2nd Cambridge University Press Cambridge 0-521-37079-5 The galaxy was independently discovered by w:Caroline Herschel on August 27, 1783; her brother w:William Herschel described her discovery in 1785. Although the galaxy was not originally included in Messier's first catalogue, it was later added by w:Kenneth Glyn Jones in 1966. http://seds.org/messier/m/m110.html Messier Object 110 Students for the Exploration and Development of Space w:August 30, w:2007 Hartmut Frommert and Christine Kronberg 2007-10-14 http://web.archive.org/web/19990420030114/http://seds.org/messier/m/m110.html 1999-04-20 M110 remains the last object added to the Messier catalog. In 1999, Johnson and Modjaz discovered a w:nova in M110. van den Bergh Sidney Sidney van den Bergh Updated Information on the Local Group 2000 April 2000 The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 112 770 http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2000PASP..112..529V 529–536 10.1086/316548 References External links Messier 110 SEDS: Elliptical Galaxy M110