IC 335

{{Short description|Lenticular Galaxy in the constellation Fornax}}

{{Infobox galaxy

| name = IC 335

| image = The beautiful side of IC 335.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| caption = IC 335 image taken by Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys.

| epoch = J2000

| constellation name = Fornax

| ra = {{RA|03|35|31.029}}{{cite simbad|title=IC 335}}

| dec = {{DEC|-34|26|49.55}}

| z = 0.005480

| h_radial_v = 1638

| dist_ly = {{convert|18.107|+/-|3.914|Mpc|Mly|abbr=on|lk=on|order=flip}}{{cite web|url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=IC+0335&extend=no&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES

|title=NED results for object IC 335

|access-date=22 January 2017

|publisher=National Aeronautics and Space Administration / Infrared Processing and Analysis Center}}

| group_cluster = Fornax Cluster

| type = S0

| size = {{convert|45000|ly|pc|abbr=on|lk=on}}

| stars =

| appmag_v =

| appmag_b = 12.9

| absmag_v =

| size_v =

| notes = Edge-on lenticular galaxy

| names = IC 1963, 2MASX J03353102-3426495, FCC 153, MCG-06-08-031, 6dFGS gJ033531.0-342649, ESO 358-26, PGC 13277

}}

IC 335 is an edge-on lenticular galaxy about 60 million light years (18 million parsecs) away, in the constellation Fornax. It is part of the Fornax Cluster.{{cite web|title=The beautiful side of IC 335|url=http://spacetelescope.org/images/potw1451a/|publisher=ESA/Hubble|access-date=25 December 2014}}

IC 335 appears very similar to NGC 4452, a lenticular galaxy in Virgo. Both galaxies are edge-on, meaning that their characteristics, like spiral arms, are hidden.{{cite web|title=A galaxy on the edge|url=https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1443a/|publisher=ESA/Hubble & NASA|access-date=25 January 2016|language=en-GB}} Lenticular galaxies like these are thought to be intermediate between spiral galaxies and elliptical galaxies, and like elliptical galaxies, they have very little gas for star formation. IC 335 may have once been a spiral galaxy that ran out of interstellar medium, or it may have collided with a galaxy in the past and thus used up all of its gas (see interacting galaxy).