Tags: Galaxy.
NGC 2146 is a barred spiral galaxy type SB(s)ab pec in the constellation Camelopardalis. The galaxy was discovered in 1876 by Friedrich August Theodor Winnecke. It has a diameter of 80000 lyr. The galaxy’s most conspicuous feature is the dusty lanes of a spiral arm lying across the core of the galaxy as seen from Earth the arm having been bent 45 degrees by a close encounter with a smaller galaxy possibly NGC 2146a about 0.8 billion years ago.
