The Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies is a catalog of peculiar galaxies produced by Halton Arp in 1966. A total of 338 galaxies are presented in the atlas, which...
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Arp mapped peculiar galaxies in his 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Arp states that "the peculiarities of the galaxies pictured in this Atlas represent...
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Halton Arp (category California Institute of Technology alumni)
1966 book Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which catalogued unusual looking galaxies and presented their images. Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang...
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Arp 251 (category Peculiar galaxies)
constellation Cetus. Arp 251 is cataloged in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which is a catalog of unusual galaxies put into groups based on purely morphological...
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Astrophysics Cosmology Physical cosmology Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies David Dunlap Observatory Catalogue Lyon-Meudon...
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100 billion galaxies in all of the observable universe. On the order of 100,000 galaxies make up the Local Supercluster, and about 51 galaxies are in the...
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Mayall's Object (category Interacting galaxies)
the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 148) is the result of two colliding galaxies located 500 million light years away within the constellation of Ursa...
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UGC 4881 (redirect from FUDGE (Galaxy))
is a peculiar spiral galaxy. It has been heavily documented by the Hubble Space Telescope, and is cataloged in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. UGC 4881...
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Hickson 44 (category Galaxy stubs)
group of galaxies in the constellation Leo. As Arp 316, a part of this group is also designated as group of galaxies in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. "NASA/IPAC...
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Arp 273 (redirect from Rose galaxy)
pair of interacting galaxies, 300 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was first described in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled...
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NGC 2523 (category Galaxies discovered in 1885)
listed in Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 9. According to A.M. Garcia, NGC 2523 is the largest and brightest galaxy of the NGC 2523 Group (also...
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Arp 220 (category Spiral galaxies)
result of a collision between two galaxies which are now in the process of merging. It is the 220th object in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Arp...
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Centaurus A (redirect from Centaurus A Galaxy)
Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington. ISBN 978-0-87279-667-6. H. Arp (1966). "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies". Astrophysical...
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Arp 240 (category Peculiar galaxies)
of interacting spiral galaxies located in the constellation Virgo. The two galaxies are listed together as Arp 240 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies....
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NGC 7393 (category Peculiar galaxies)
Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies List of NGC objects (7001–7840) "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 7393. Retrieved 2024-04-21. "ARP Atlas...
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NGC 1023 (redirect from Perseus Lenticular Galaxy)
consistent with similar early-type galaxies. A number of small galaxies have been found around NGC 1023, the collection of which is labelled the "NGC 1023...
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Messier 66 (redirect from Spiral galaxy M66)
spiral arm and dust lane structures as originally noted in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Five supernovae have been observed in M66: SN 1973R (type II...
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UGC 1775 (category Peculiar galaxies)
years across. The galaxy is included in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies in the galaxies with split arms category. The galaxy features a bright...
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NGC 3800 (category Peculiar galaxies)
interacting galaxies and appear in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies under the symbol Arp 83. Halton Arp describes these as an example of galaxies by presenting...
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NGC 2719 (category Peculiar galaxies)
Together with the galaxy PGC 25284 (also known as NGC 2719A), NGC 2719 is listed in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 202. The galaxy pair is also...
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Leo Triplet (redirect from M66 group of galaxies)
(1988). Nearby Galaxies Catalog. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-35299-1. H. Arp (1966). "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies". Astrophysical...
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NGC 3227 (category Peculiar galaxies)
listed in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Both galaxies may be found in the constellation Leo. It is a member of the NGC 3227 Group of galaxies, which is...
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NGC 5195 (redirect from Irregular Galaxy NGC 5195)
Galaxy compose one of the most noted interacting galaxy pairs in astronomy. The two galaxies are listed in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as one of several...
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NGC 3799 (category Barred spiral galaxies)
interacting galaxies and appear in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies under the symbol Arp 83. Halton Arp describes these as an example of galaxies by presenting...
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Arp 60 (category Barred spiral galaxies)
light-years away and as such makes a galaxy pair with Arp 60. Together, they are part of the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies which was created by Halton Arp. In...
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companion galaxy are indeed interacting. Sometimes the designation M51 is used to refer to the pair of galaxies, in which case the individual galaxies may be...
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NGC 4631 (redirect from Herring Galaxy)
elliptical galaxy, NGC 4627. NGC 4627 and NGC 4631 together were listed in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as an example of a "double galaxy" or a galaxy pair...
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NGC 935 and IC 1801 (category Spiral galaxies)
Together, they are listed in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 276, as an example of interacting galaxies. One supernova has been observed in NGC...
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NGC 7603 (category Unbarred spiral galaxies)
galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is listed (as Arp 92) in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. It is interacting with the smaller elliptical galaxy PGC...
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