NGC 5746 is located at a distance of 99 million
light years[7] and is seen nearly edge-on, bearing a strong resemblance with the galaxy
NGC 4565, that is also seen nearly edge-on.
As with the former, it has a box-shaped bulge that is actually a
bar seen from one side[7] and a currently modest
star formation activity.[8]
Investigations with the help of the
x-rayspace telescopeChandra seemed to detect a large cloud of gas surrounding NGC 5746 that was thought to be remnant gas of its formation in the process of being accreted;[9] however, later research has shown that cloud does not actually exist.[10]
Seen in the
infrared, NGC 5746 also shows two
pseudobulges, one nested within the other – that coincides with its central bar – as well as an inner ring with a radius of 9.1 kilo
parsecs and a width of 1.6 kiloparsecs.[3]
^Rasmussen, Jesper; Sommer-Larsen, Jesper; Pedersen, Kristian; Toft, Sune; Benson, Andrew; Bower, Richard G.; Grove, Lisbeth F. (20 May 2009). "Hot gas halos around disk galaxies: Confronting cosmological simulations with observations". The Astrophysical Journal. 697 (1): 79–93.
arXiv:0903.0665.
doi:
10.1088/0004-637X/697/1/79.