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    in NGC 1052-DF4 indicating that the lack of dark matter has been caused by the interaction with a nearby neighbor (a low mass disk galaxy, NGC 1035). The...
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    NGC 3324 is an open cluster in the southern constellation Carina, located northwest of the Carina Nebula (NGC 3372) at a distance of 9,100 ly (2,800 pc)...
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    belongs in the same galaxy group with NGC 988, NGC 991, NGC 1022, NGC 1035, NGC 1042, NGC 1047, NGC 1052 and NGC 1110. This group is in turn associated...
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    inner arms of NGC 1042 are curved with a bar-like structure that is mistaken as a bar. NGC 1042 appears near the spiral galaxy NGC 1035 in the sky, with...
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    includes the elliptical galaxy NGC 1052, NGC 991, NGC 1022, NGC 1035, NGC 1042, NGC 1047, NGC 1051, NGC 1084, NGC 1110. It belongs in the same galaxy cloud...
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    Owl Nebula (redirect from NGC 3587)
    The Owl Nebula (also known as Messier 97, M97 or NGC 3587) is a planetary nebula approximately 2,030 light years away in the constellation Ursa Major...
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    Messier 43 (redirect from NGC 1982)
    Messier 43 or M43, also known as De Mairan's Nebula and NGC 1982, is a star-forming nebula with a prominent H II region in the equatorial constellation...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 3195
    NGC 3195 (also known as Caldwell 109) is a planetary nebula located in the southern constellation of Chamaeleon. Discovered by Sir John Herschel in 1835...
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    NGC 6781, also known as the Snowglobe Nebula, is a planetary nebula located in the equatorial constellation of Aquila, about 2.5° east-northeast of the...
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  • This is a list of NGC objects 1001–2000 from the New General Catalogue (NGC). The astronomical catalogue is composed mainly of star clusters, nebulae...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 6834
    NGC 6834 is a young open cluster of stars located about 10,850 light years from the Sun in the constellation Cygnus. It was discovered on July 17, 1784...
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    NGC 2547 is a southern open cluster in Vela, discovered by Nicolas Louis de Lacaille in 1751 from South Africa. The star cluster is young with an age...
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    embedded star of magnitude 6, NGC 7000 is 1500 light-years from Earth. To the south of Epsilon Cygni is the Veil Nebula (NGC 6960, 6979, 6992, and 6995)...
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    star cluster (800 M☉) 1034 1035 ~1035 kg Typical globular cluster in the Milky Way (overall range: 3×103 to 4×106 M☉) 2×1035 kg Low end of mass range for...
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    similar-sized NGC 1778. Far dimmer than the other open clusters is NGC 2126 at magnitude 10.2. Despite its dimness, NGC 2126 is as concentrated as NGC 1857, having...
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    Yervant (1999). "Hubble Space Telescope Measurements of the Expansion of NGC 6543: Parallax Distance and Nebular Evolution". Astronomical Journal. 118...
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    in the Andromeda Galaxy. A second supernova, SN 1895B, was discovered in NGC 5253 a decade later. Early work on what was originally believed to be simply...
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  • black holes up to 21 billion (2.1 × 1010) M☉ have been detected, such as NGC 4889.) Unlike stellar mass black holes, supermassive black holes have comparatively...
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    resolved (e.g. 2MASS J13243553+6358281, PSO J060.3200+25.9644 objects in NGC 1333) Objects with a mass range at the border of deuterium burning (VHS 1256-1257...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 3313
    in NGC 3313: SN 2002jp (type Ic, mag. 16.9). List of NGC objects (3001–4000) NGC 1433 NGC 1097 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 3313...
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    CoRoT space mission". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 537: A136. arXiv:1112.1035. Bibcode:2012A&A...537A.136G. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201117706. S2CID 42622538...
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    made up of dark matter. In 2003, however, four galaxies (NGC 821, NGC 3379, NGC 4494, and NGC 4697) were found to have little to no dark matter influencing...
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  • Thumbnail for Ammonia
    from interstellar grains in the Becklin–Neugebauer Object and probably in NGC 2264-IR as well. This detection helped explain the physical shape of previously...
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    Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society: Letters. 440: L61. arXiv:1401.1035. Bibcode:2014MNRAS.440L..61Z. doi:10.1093/mnrasl/slu002. S2CID 54841624....
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  • Thumbnail for Rare Earth hypothesis
    Stars". Icarus. 37 (1): 351–7. Bibcode:1979Icar...37..351H. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(79)90141-6. Phillips, Tony (8 January 2013). "Science Solar Variability and...
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  • Thumbnail for Impact event
    terrestrial planet impact was detected around the star ID8 in the star cluster NGC 2547 by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and confirmed by ground observations...
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    Adelman, S..J. (2019). "On the variability of the A0 supergiants 9 Per, HR 1035, 13 Mon, Deneb, and HR 8020 as seen in FCAPT Strömgren photometry". New Astronomy...
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    debris around a white dwarf Cocoon of a new white dwarf in the centre of NGC 2440 Artist's impression of an evolving white dwarf and millisecond pulsar...
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  • Thumbnail for Future of an expanding universe
    171...11C Adams & Laughlin (1997), §IIIF, Table I. p. 428, A deep focus on NGC 1883, A. L. Tadross, Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India 33, No...
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  • Icarus. 69 (2): 249–265. Bibcode:1987Icar...69..249L. doi:10.1016/0019-1035(87)90104-7. hdl:2060/19870013947. Abbot, Dorian S.; Switzer, Eric R. (2 June...
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