• Thumbnail for NGC 166
    NGC 166 (also known as PGC 2143) is a spiral galaxy located around 2.6 million light-years away in the constellation Cetus, with an apparent magnitude...
    2 KB (116 words) - 14:10, 24 December 2024
  • This is a list of NGC objects 1–1000 from the New General Catalogue (NGC). The astronomical catalogue is composed mainly of star clusters, nebulae, and...
    131 KB (310 words) - 09:39, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for New General Catalogue
    of Stars (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. The NGC contains 7,840 objects...
    13 KB (1,534 words) - 17:10, 7 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for NGC 747
    NGC 747 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 5,100 ± 19 km/s, which corresponds...
    3 KB (251 words) - 14:31, 20 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for NGC 7177
    (26.517 ± 3.166 Mpc). It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 15 October 1784. The SIMBAD database lists NGC 7177 as a LINER...
    4 KB (313 words) - 12:27, 26 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Rosette Nebula
    Rosette Nebula (redirect from NGC 2237)
    confused with NGC 246, which is also nicknamed the "Skull Nebula". The complex has the following New General Catalogue (NGC) designations: NGC 2237 – Part...
    8 KB (780 words) - 19:14, 28 September 2024
  • galaxies. List of NGC objects (1–1000) List of NGC objects (1001–2000) List of NGC objects (2001–3000) List of NGC objects (3001–4000) List of NGC objects (4001–5000)...
    2 KB (210 words) - 10:14, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for NGC 1620
    galaxy NGC 1620 is part of the NGC 1589 Group (also known as LGG 117) that includes at least 8 other galaxies: NGC 1586, NGC 1587, NGC 1588, NGC 1589,...
    5 KB (327 words) - 01:24, 14 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Messier 83
    Messier 83 (redirect from NGC 5236)
    Messier 83 or M83, also known as the Southern Pinwheel Galaxy and NGC 5236, is a barred spiral galaxy approximately 15 million light-years away in the...
    25 KB (1,713 words) - 03:18, 15 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Messier 89
    Messier 89 (redirect from NGC 4552)
    Gas Stripping in the Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4552 in the Virgo Cluster". The Astrophysical Journal. 644 (1): 155–166. arXiv:astro-ph/0508588. Bibcode:2006ApJ...
    7 KB (630 words) - 02:12, 8 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Arp 166
    galaxies, NGC 750 and NGC 751, are listed together as Arp 166 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (in the category Galaxies with diffuse filaments). Arp 166 was...
    5 KB (353 words) - 12:01, 14 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for NGC 6240
    coalescing. Arp 148, VV 340, Arp 256, NGC 6670, NGC 6240, ESO 593-8, NGC 454, UGC 8335, NGC 6786, NGC 17, ESO 77-14, NGC 6050 NGC 6240 imaged by the Cerro Tololo...
    10 KB (979 words) - 20:28, 14 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sculptor Galaxy
    Sculptor Galaxy (redirect from NGC 253)
    Sculptor Galaxy (also known as the Silver Coin Galaxy, Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, or Caldwell 65) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation...
    18 KB (1,897 words) - 17:59, 27 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for NGC 206
    NGC 206 is a bright star cloud in the Andromeda Galaxy, and the brightest star cloud in Andromeda when viewed from Earth. NGC 206 is the richest and most...
    4 KB (342 words) - 13:43, 15 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for NGC 70
    between 2 faint stars". NGC 70 is a member of a compact group of seven or eight galaxies, sometimes called the NGC 70 Group or the VV 166 Group. The group consists...
    5 KB (330 words) - 06:40, 27 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for NGC 68
    2015. Retrieved 14 May 2014. NGC 67, 67A, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, and 72A The Arp 113 / VV-166 Galaxy Cluster Media related to NGC 68 at Wikimedia Commons...
    3 KB (196 words) - 10:49, 28 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for NGC 7236
    its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 7236 is about 150,000 light years across. NGC 7236 forms a pair with NGC 7237 and is a radio galaxy. It was discovered...
    6 KB (572 words) - 00:38, 30 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for NGC 4647
    Interstellar Medium in the Mildly Disturbed Spiral Galaxy NGC 4647". The Astrophysical Journal. 650 (1): 166–179. arXiv:astro-ph/0606410. Bibcode:2006ApJ...650...
    6 KB (578 words) - 00:05, 5 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for NGC 1090
    Results for NGC 1090. Retrieved 2006-11-25. Bratton, Mark (2011). The Complete Guide to the Herschel Objects. Cambridge University Press. p. 166. ISBN 978-0-521-76892-4...
    3 KB (238 words) - 17:05, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for NGC 4212
    the NGC catalog as NGC 4208. He then observed the same galaxy and listed it as NGC 4212. Astronomer John Louis Emil Dreyer later concluded that NGC 4208...
    5 KB (438 words) - 12:52, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sh 2-279
    comprises three NGC nebulae, NGC 1973, NGC 1975, and NGC 1977 that are divided by darker nebulous regions. It also includes the open cluster NGC 1981. The brightest...
    9 KB (1,054 words) - 16:22, 1 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for NGC 2359
    NGC 2359 (also known as Thor's Helmet) is an emission nebula in the constellation Canis Major. The nebula is approximately 3,670 parsecs (11.96 thousand...
    4 KB (433 words) - 12:10, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for NGC 751
    nearby NGC 750 galaxy. The pair is listed as Arp 166 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (in the category Galaxies with diffuse filaments). NGC 751 was...
    5 KB (378 words) - 00:14, 6 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for NGC 918
    Astrophysical Journal, Volume 767, Issue 2, article id. 166, 15 pp. (2013). "Supernova 2009js in NGC 918". www.rochesterastronomy.org. Gandhi, P.; Yamanaka...
    5 KB (455 words) - 23:07, 26 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Crescent Nebula
    Crescent Nebula (redirect from NGC 6888)
    The Crescent Nebula (also known as NGC 6888, Caldwell 27, Sharpless 105) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light-years away...
    4 KB (396 words) - 18:49, 10 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for NGC 68 group
    VV 166, sometimes also called the NGC 70 galaxy group or Arp 113, is a cluster of galaxies in Andromeda. The main group was discovered in 1784 by William...
    6 KB (152 words) - 17:24, 4 December 2021
  • Thumbnail for NGC 1
    NGC 1 is an intermediate spiral galaxy of the morphological type Sbc, located in the constellation of Pegasus. It was discovered on 30 September 1861...
    8 KB (788 words) - 19:10, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for NGC 457
    NGC 457 (also designated Caldwell 13, and known as the Dragonfly Cluster, E.T. Cluster, Owl Cluster, Kachina Doll Cluster or Phi Cassiopeiae Cluster)...
    4 KB (342 words) - 15:13, 8 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for NGC 300
    NGC 300 (also known as Caldwell 70 or the Sculptor Pinwheel Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. It was discovered on 5 August 1826...
    19 KB (1,989 words) - 18:24, 2 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for NGC 7237
    its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 7237 is about 240,000 light years across. NGC 7237 forms a pair with NGC 7236 and is a radio galaxy. It was discovered...
    6 KB (554 words) - 01:36, 30 December 2024