{{Short description|Galaxy in the constellation Boötes}} {{Infobox Galaxy | name = NGC 5676 | image = [[File:NGC5676 - SDSS DR14.jpg|250px]] | alt = NGC 5676 | caption = [[Sloan Digital Sky Survey|SDSS]] image of NGC 5676 | epoch = [[J2000]] | constellation name = [[Boötes (constellation)|Boötes]]<ref name="sinnott1988">{{cite book | editor=R. W. Sinnott | title= The Complete New General Catalogue and Index Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters by J. L. E. Dreyer | date=1988 | publisher=Sky Publishing Corporation and Cambridge University Press | isbn=978-0-933346-51-2}}</ref> | ra = {{RA|14|32|46.8}}<ref name="ned">{{cite web | title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database | work=Results for NGC 5676 | url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/ | access-date=2007-07-13}}</ref> | dec = {{DEC|+49|27|28}}<ref name="ned" /> | z = 2114 ± 5 km/[[second|s]]<ref name="ned" /> | dist_ly =100 [[Light-year|Mly]]<br>(30.8 [[parsec|Mpc]]) | type = SA(rs)bc<ref name="ned" /> | appmag_v = 12.3<ref name="ned" /> | size_v = 4.0{{prime}} × 1.1{{prime}} <ref name="ned" /> | notes = Paired with [[NGC 5660]]. | names = [[Uppsala General Catalogue|UGC]] 9366,<ref name="ned" /> [[Principal Galaxies Catalogue|PGC]] 51978,<ref name="ned" /> [[Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies|MCG]]+08-26-043, [[List of astronomical catalogues#H|H]] I-189, h 1842, [[Boss General Catalogue|GC]] 3935, [[Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies|CGCG]] 247.042, [[Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies|CGCG]] 248.003, [[Kiso Survey for Ultraviolet-excess Galaxies|KUG]] 1431+496, [[Lyons Groups of Galaxies|LGG]] 384-005<ref name="ned" /> }}
'''NGC 5676''' is an [[unbarred spiral galaxy|unbarred]] [[spiral galaxy]] in the [[constellation]] [[Boötes (constellation)|Boötes]].
==Disk==
This spiral galaxy is notably asymmetric. The [[spiral arm]]s on the south side of the galaxy are chaotic in appearance, whereas the spiral arms on the north side of the galaxy are very well-defined. Also, the spiral arms on the south side of the disk extend twice as far from the galaxy's [[galaxy nucleus|nucleus]] as the spiral arms on the north side.<ref name="carnegieatlas" >{{cite book | author=A. Sandage | author2=J. Bedke | date=1994 | title=Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies | publisher=[[Carnegie Institution of Washington]] | location=Washington, D.C. | isbn=978-0-87279-667-6}}</ref> Because of the fragmentary appearance of some of the spiral arms, this galaxy is classified as a [[flocculent galaxy]].<ref name="elmegreenelmegreen1987">{{cite journal | author=D. M. Elmegreen|author-link1=Debra Elmegreen | author2=B. G. Elmegreen|author-link2=Bruce Elmegreen | title=Arm classifications for spiral galaxies | journal=Astrophysical Journal | date=1987 | volume=314 | pages=3–9 | bibcode=1987ApJ...314....3E | doi=10.1086/165034}}</ref>
==Star formation==
The north part of the disk also contains what appears to be a very intense region of [[star formation]].<ref name="bendojoseph2004">{{cite journal | author= G. J. Bendo | author2= R. D. Joseph | title=Nuclear Stellar Populations in the Infrared Space Observatory Atlas of Bright Spiral Galaxies | journal=Astronomical Journal | date=2004 | volume=127 | issue= 6 | pages=3338–3360 | bibcode=2004AJ....127.3338B | doi=10.1086/420712|arxiv = astro-ph/0403133 | s2cid= 14169689 }}</ref> Unusually, the star formation within this region appears to be more intense than the star formation in the galaxy's nucleus,<ref name="bendojoseph2004"/> and it is the brightest [[infrared]] source within the disk.<ref name="bendoetal2002">{{cite journal | author=G. J. Bendo | display-authors=4 | author2=R. D. Joseph | author3=M. Wells | author4=P. Gallais | author5= M. Haas | author6= A. M. Heras | author7= U. Klaas | author8= R. J. Laureijs | author9= K. Leech | author10= D. Lemke | author11= L. Metcalfe | author12= M. Rowan-Robinson | author13= B. Schulz | author14= C. Telesco | title=An Infrared Space Observatory Atlas of Bright Spiral Galaxies | journal=Astronomical Journal | date=2002 | volume=123 | issue=6 | pages=3067–3107 | bibcode=2002AJ....123.3067B | doi=10.1086/340083| doi-access=free }}</ref>
==References==
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==External links== {{commonscat}} * [http://www.freewebs.com/ebenson/ngc5676.htm www.freewebs.com/] * [http://aladin.u-strasbg.fr/AladinPreview?-c=14+32+47.18%2B49+27+28.6&ident=NGC++5676&submit=Aladin+previewer Image NGC 5676] *{{WikiSky}}
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[[Category:Unbarred spiral galaxies|NGC 5676]] [[Category:Boötes]] [[Category:NGC objects|5676]] [[Category:UGC objects|09366]] [[Category:Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects|51978]]