page_title: NGC 5308
hierarchical_section_title: NGC 5308
caption_attribution_description: NGC 5308 is a smooth, lenticular galaxy with some subtle structural details and a good smattering of globular clusters surrounding it in a halo. You can see them swarming around its periphery like a bunch of bees at a hive. On the right is a very irregular-looking, dim galaxy and a handful of other background galaxies and spiky foreground stars can also be seen. Red: HST_10594_04_ACS_WFC_F814W_sci Green: Pseudo Blue: HST_10594_04_ACS_WFC_F475W_sci This galaxy was imaged for Proposal 10594: The Formation of Spiral Spheroids and Their Globular Cluster Systems North is NOT up. It is 13° clockwise from up.
context_page_description: NGC 5308 is an edge-on lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major. It was discovered on 19 March 1790 by William Herschel. It was described by John Louis Emil Dreyer as "bright, pretty large" when he compiled the New General Catalogue. A small, irregular galaxy near NGC 5308 has been given the designation LEDA 2802348.
  NGC 5308 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2016. The galaxy appears to be a flat, smooth disk, typical of most lenticular galaxies. Many large globular clusters orbit the galaxy; these are visible as tiny dots surrounding the galaxy, and are mostly made of old, aging stars similar to the galaxy itself.
  SN 1996bk, a type Ia supernova, was discovered in NGC 5308 in October 1996. The supernova was 10.5" south and 17.9" west of center of the galaxy, and had an apparent visual magnitude of 15.
context_section_description: NGC 5308 is an edge-on lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major. It was discovered on 19 March 1790 by William Herschel. It was described by John Louis Emil Dreyer as "bright, pretty large" when he compiled the New General Catalogue. A small, irregular galaxy near NGC 5308 has been given the designation LEDA 2802348.
  NGC 5308 was imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope in 2016. The galaxy appears to be a flat, smooth disk, typical of most lenticular galaxies. Many large globular clusters orbit the galaxy; these are visible as tiny dots surrounding the galaxy, and are mostly made of old, aging stars similar to the galaxy itself.
  SN 1996bk, a type Ia supernova, was discovered in NGC 5308 in October 1996. The supernova was 10.5" south and 17.9" west of center of the galaxy, and had an apparent visual magnitude of 15.
caption: NGC 5308, imaged by the Hubble Space Telescope along with LEDA 2802348 (right)
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