NGC 7049

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

{{Infobox Galaxy

| name = NGC 7049

| image = NGC 7049aa.jpg

| image_size = 250px

| caption = NGC 7049 - image from the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys

| epoch = J2000

| ra = {{RA|21|19|00.25}}{{cite web

| title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database

| work=Results for NGC 7049

| url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/

| access-date=2016-11-18}}

| dec = {{DEC|-48|33|43.24}}

| type = S0

| dist_ly = 100 Mly{{cite news

| title=Unusual Dusty Galaxy NGC 7049

| url=http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090408.html

| access-date = 18 November 2016 }}

| dist_pc 30.360 Mpc

| z = 2285 km/s

| appmag_v = 10.7

| constellation name = Indus

| names = ESO 236-1,{{cite web

| title=SIMBAD Astronomical Database

| work=Results for NGC 7049

| url=http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/Simbad/

| access-date=2016-11-16}} PGC 66549

|size = ~150,000 ly

}}

NGC 7049 is a lenticular galaxy that spans about 150,000 light-years and lies about 100 million light-years away from Earth in the inconspicuous southern constellation of Indus.

NGC 7049's unusual appearance is largely due to a prominent rope-like dust ring which stands out against the starlight behind it. These dust lanes are usually seen in young galaxies with active star-forming regions. NGC 7049 shows the features of both an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy, and has relatively few globular clusters, indicative of its status as a lenticular type.[https://web.archive.org/web/20090413143730/http://www.astroleague.org/node/442 The Astronomical League]{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} NGC 7049 is the brightest (BCG) of the Indus triplet of galaxies (NGC 7029, NGC 7041, NGC 7049),{{Cite news|url=http://annesastronomynews.com/photo-gallery-ii/galaxies-clusters/ngc-7049/|title=NGC 7049, an unusual galaxy in Indus|date=2012-08-05|work=Anne's Astronomy News|access-date=2017-06-09|language=nl-NL}} and its structure might have arisen from several recent galaxy collisions. Typical BCGs are some of the oldest and most massive galaxies.{{Cite APOD |date=8 April 2009 |title=Unusual Dusty Galaxy NGC 7049 |access-date=}}{{dubious|date=July 2016}}

File:NGC 7049 2MASS.jpg image of NGC 7049]]