September 18, 1786, by William Herschel. "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 0014. Retrieved 2010-05-03. "Distance Results for NGC 0014". NASA/IPAC...
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1783 and cataloged by her brother William Herschel in 1786, although an object that may have been NGC 752 was described by Giovanni Batista Hodierna before...
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Messier 102 (redirect from NGC 5928)
rearranged by Johann Elert Bode in the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch for 1786. NGC 5866 (one of two galaxies commonly called the Spindle Galaxy) is a lenticular...
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Veil Nebula (redirect from NGC 6960)
as Caldwell 33), whose brightest area is NGC 6992, trailing off farther south into NGC 6995 (together with NGC 6992 also known as "Network Nebula") and...
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Cat's Eye Nebula (redirect from NGC 6543)
known as NGC 6543 and Caldwell 6) is a planetary nebula in the northern constellation of Draco, discovered by William Herschel on February 15, 1786. It was...
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31 on 31 January 1786, but he possibly observed it during his studies of double stars on 20 September 1783. "NED results for object NGC 1980*". NED. Retrieved...
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German-British astronomer William Herschel on 1 January 1786. Two supernovae have been observed in NGC 1620: SN 2009K (type IIb, mag. 14.9) and SN 2023crx...
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NGC 4825 is a lenticular galaxy located around 230 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. NGC 4825 was discovered on March 27th, 1786 by...
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German-British astronomer William Herschel on 14 December 1786. Three supernovae have been observed in NGC 1954: SN 2010ko (type Ia, mag. 16.8), SN 2011fi (type...
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Sh 2-279 (redirect from NGC 1973, NGC 1975 and NGC 1977)
1981. The brightest nebulosity, later listed as NGC 1977, was discovered by William Herschel in 1786. He catalogued it as "H V 30" and described "!! 42...
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4 Mpc (~159 million light-years). NGC 1024 was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1786. NGC 1024 was used in the Atlas of Peculiar...
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discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 18 October 1786. NGC 828 is a LINER galaxy, i.e. it has a type of nucleus that is defined by...
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NGC 5486 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major 110 million light-years from Earth. The galaxy is considered a member of the NGC 5485 group...
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German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1786. NGC 1175 is about the same distance from the Milky Way as NGC 1177. These two galaxies form a gravitationally...
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NGC 6440 is a globular cluster in the constellation Sagittarius discovered by William Herschel on 28 May 1786. It has an apparent magnitude of around...
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on 26th October 1786 and the findings made public through his Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars, published the same year. NGC 855's relative velocity...
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North America Nebula (redirect from NGC 7000)
The North America Nebula (NGC 7000 or Caldwell 20) is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, close to Deneb (the tail of the swan and its brightest...
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NGC 665 is a Lenticular galaxy 236 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. NGC 665 was discovered in 1786 by William Herschel, and is 100...
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October 17, 1786 and is a member of the Perseus Cluster. List of NGC objects (1001–2000) NGC 1250 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 1294....
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NGC 1193 is an open cluster in the Perseus constellation. It was first observed and catalogued by astronomer William Herschel in 1786. The cluster is...
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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)...
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NGC 473 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation of Pisces. It was discovered on December 20, 1786 by William Herschel. "Results for Object NGC 0473"...
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New General Catalogue (redirect from NGC object)
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...
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British astronomer William Herschel on 28 May 1786. It is at a distance of 28,000 light years away from Earth. NGC 6342 is classified as metal-rich, yet has...
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1,370 light years. It was discovered by William Herschel on March 19, 1786. NGC 2438 appears to lie within the cluster M46, but it is most likely unrelated...
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NGC 493, also occasionally referred to as PGC 4979 or GC 281, is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is located approximately 90 million...
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NGC 278 is an isolated spiral galaxy in the northern circumpolar constellation of Cassiopeia, near the southern constellation boundary with Andromeda...
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Cygnus Loop (section NGC 6992, NGC 6995, and IC 1340)
+30° 35′ 43″. As the westernmost NGC object in the nebula (first in right ascension), its number is sometimes used as an NGC identifier for the nebula as...
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NGC 429 is a lenticular galaxy of type S0^0: located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on December 20, 1786 by William Herschel. It was described...
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constellation of Cetus, and it was discovered on December 20, 1786, by William Herschel. "Results for Object NGC 0426". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. Archived...
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