NGC 2672

{{Short description|Galaxy in the constellation Cancer}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2024}}

{{Sky|08|49|21.8884|+|19|04|29.947}}

{{Infobox Galaxy

| name = NGC{{nbsp}}2672

| image = NGC 2672 SDSS.jpg

| caption= NGC{{nbsp}}2672 (center) and NGC 2673 (left) imaged by SDSS

| alt =

| epoch = J2000

| constellation name = Cancer

| ra = {{RA|08|49|21.8884}}{{cite web

| website = NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

| publisher = NASA and Caltech

| title=Results for object NGC 2672

| url = https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/byname?objname=NGC+2672

| access-date = 19 December 2024}}

| dec = {{DEC|+19|04|29.947}}{{r|ned}}

| z = 0.014487{{r|ned}}

| h_radial_v = {{val|4343|10|u=km/s|fmt=commas}}{{r|ned}}

| dist_ly = {{convert|68.01 ± 4.77|Mpc|Mly|abbr=on|lk=on|order=flip}}{{r|ned}}

| group_cluster = Arp 167

| type = E1-2{{r|ned}}

| size = ~{{convert|49.74|kpc|ly|abbr=on|lk=on|order=flip}} (estimated){{r|ned}}

| appmag_v = 11.7{{r|ned}}

| size_v = {{Val|3.0|×|2.8|u=arcminute}}{{r|ned}}

| notes =

| names = {{odlist | Arp= 167 | UGC= 4619 | CGCG= 090-019 NED01 | MCG= +03-23-010 | PGC= 24790 | name= HOLM 99A | KPG= 175A}}{{r|ned}}

}}

NGC{{nbsp}}2672 is a elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Cancer. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is {{val|4611|21|u=km/s|fmt=commas}}, which corresponds to a Hubble distance of {{convert|68.01 ± 4.77|Mpc|Mly|abbr=on|lk=on|order=flip}}.{{r|ned}} Additionally, 11 non-redshift measurements give a distance of {{convert|57.927 ± 6.045|Mpc|Mly|abbr=on|lk=off|order=flip}}.{{cite web | url = https://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nDistance?name=NGC+2672 | title = Distance Results for NGC{{nbsp}}2672 | website = NASA/IPAC EXTRAGALACTIC DATABASE | publisher = NASA | access-date = 19 December 2024}} It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 14 March 1784.{{cite web | url = https://cseligman.com/text/atlas/ngc26a.htm#2672 | title = New General Catalogue Objects: NGC{{nbsp}}2672| last = Seligman | first = Courtney | website = Celestial Atlas | access-date = 19 December 2024}}

The SIMBAD database lists NGC 2672 as an Active Galaxy Nucleus Candidate, i.e. it has a compact region at the center of a galaxy that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum, with characteristics indicating that this luminosity is not produced by the stars. {{cite simbad | title=NGC 2672 | access-date=18 December 2024}}

NGC 2672 is listed with the galaxy NGC 2673 as Holm 99 in Erik Holmberg's A Study of Double and Multiple Galaxies Together with Inquiries into some General Metagalactic Problems, published in 1937.{{cite journal | bibcode=1937AnLun...6....1H | title=A Study of Double and Multiple Galaxies Together with Inquiries into some General Metagalactic Problems | last1=Holmberg | first1=Erik | journal=Annals of the Observatory of Lund | date=1937 | volume=6 | page=1 }} These two galaxies are also listed in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp{{nbsp}}167, with the description "Comp. galaxy very condensed, has curved plume."{{cite journal | bibcode=1966ApJS...14....1A | title=Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies | last1=Arp | first1=Halton | journal=The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series | date=1966 | volume=14 |page=1 | doi=10.1086/190147}} Another study indicates that the two galaxies are interacting and NGC 2673 has two tidal plumes, while NGC 2672 is only weakly disturbed.{{cite journal | bibcode=1989ApJ...336..655B |title=Interacting Binary Galaxies. VI. The Fast Encounter of NGC 2672 and NGC 2673 (Karachentsev 175, ARP 167) |last1=Balcells |first1=Marc |last2=Borne |first2=Kirk D. |last3=Hoessel |first3=John G. |journal=The Astrophysical Journal |date=1989 |volume=336 |page=655 |doi=10.1086/167041 | doi-access=free}}