NGC 2976 is a peculiar dwarf galaxy[4] in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Major.

[4] De Vaucouleurs and associates classed it as type SAc, suggesting more loosely wound arms.

[4] Although appearing as a disk, there is evidence for a non-axisymmetric form of gas distribution, with a suggestion of central bar plus large-scale spiral arms.

Within a ~3 kpc radius of the center, star formation has been steady, having not undergone a recent decline.

[12] There is a cloud of neutral hydrogen with a mass of (2.67±0.65)×107 M☉ located 27 kpc to the northeast of this galaxy, which may be interacting gravitationally with NGC 2976.