spiral galaxy
Spiral galaxies form a class of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work ''The Realm of the Nebulae''Leo Minor. It was discovered by William Herschel on Mar 17, 1787. It is a member of the
Leo II Groups
The Leo II Groups, or Leo II Cloud, are a series of at least 110 galactic clusters and individual galaxies stretching approximately 30 Mly (9.2 Mpc) off the right edge of the Virgo Supercluster. It is located approximately 65 Mly (20 Mpc) to 95 M ...
, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the right edge of the Virgo Supercluster. The galaxy is located at a distance of 98 million
light year
A light-year, alternatively spelled light year, is a large unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equivalent to about 9.46 trillion kilometers (), or 5.88 trillion miles ().One trillion here is taken to be 1012 ...
s and is receding with a heliocentric
radial velocity
The radial velocity or line-of-sight velocity, also known as radial speed or range rate, of a target with respect to an observer is the temporal rate of change, rate of change of the distance or Slant range, range between the two points. It is e ...
of . The morphological class of NGC 3294 is SA(rs)bc, which means this is a spiral galaxy with no central
bar
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* Bar (establishment), selling alcoholic beverages
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Science and technology
* Bar (river morphology), a deposit of sediment
* Bar (tropical cyclone), a layer of cloud
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(SA), an incomplete inner ring structure (rs), and moderately wound spiral arms (bc).
This galaxy has been host to a pair of supernova events. SN 1990H was discovered April 9, 1990 at a position west and south of the galactic nucleus. The spectrum and light curve resembled a type II core-collapse supernova similar to SN 1987A. A scan two years later on February 14, 1992, SN 1992G was imaged east and south of the nucleus. This was determined to be a type Ia supernova.