• Galaxy 3C (or Galaxy 13) is a communications satellite operated by PanAmSat from 2000 to 2006, and by Intelsat from 2006 to today. It spent most of its...
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    3C 273 is a quasar located at the center of a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Virgo. It was the first quasar ever to be identified and...
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  • was claimed to be the first non-QSO galaxy found beyond redshift 3. The quasar itself is at z=3.197 In 1975, 3C 123 was incorrectly determined to lie...
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  • satellite replaced DirecTV 6 at 110° W, where it has remained ever since. Galaxy 3C is a geostationary communications satellite located at 95° W. It was launched...
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    Hercules A (redirect from 3C 348)
    astronomical radio source in the constellation Hercules corresponding to the galaxy 3C 348. During a survey of bright radio sources in the mid-20th century,...
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    object in a distant galaxy. This was also the first solid identification of a quasar with a surrounding galaxy at the same redshift. 3C 48 is one of four...
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    Messier 87 (redirect from 3C 274)
    supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains several trillion stars. One of the largest and most massive galaxies in the local universe...
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    3C 321 is a system of two galaxies rotating around each other. They are notable for showing the first observed galaxy smiting another galaxy with a blast...
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    Messier 82 (redirect from 3C 231)
    M82 Galaxy Messier 82 (also known as NGC 3034, Cigar Galaxy or M82) is a starburst galaxy approximately 12 million light-years away in the constellation...
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    3C 120, also known as Markarian 1506, is an active galaxy located in the constellation of Taurus, at a distance of about 420 million light years. It has...
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    companion of its own. An even stranger galaxy pair is 3C 321. Unlike the previous pair, the two galaxies making up 3C 321 are interacting with each other...
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    3C 295 is a narrow-line radio galaxy located in the constellation of Boötes. With a redshift of 0.464, it is approximately 5 billion light-years from Earth...
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    Fastest Galaxy: 76,000 Miles per Second". Time. 10 April 1964. Greenstein, Jesse L; Matthews, Thomas A (1963). "Red-Shift of the Unusual Radio Source: 3C 48"...
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  • tidally distorted galaxy with an unusual emission-line spectrum, having a recessional velocity of 16,700 kilometers per second. The 3C radio survey led...
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    elliptical galaxies are on average much older than stars found in spiral galaxies. 3C 244.1 M49 (NGC 4472) M59 (NGC 4621) M60 (NGC 4649) M87 (NGC 4486), whose...
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    3C 401 is a powerful radio galaxy located in the constellation Draco. It is near the center of a rich cluster of galaxies and dominates the cluster. That...
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  • component was part of the sample: e.g. the radio galaxy 3C 66B is part of the sample, but the BL Lac object 3C 66A is not. Edge, DO; Shakeshaft, JR; McAdam...
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    3C 459 known as IRAS 23140+0348, is a radio galaxy located in the constellation Pisces. It is located 2.74 billion light years from Earth and is classified...
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  • 2023. "Galaxy 4R". The Satellite Encyclopedia. Retrieved 1 August 2016. "Galaxy 5". The Satellite Encyclopedia. Retrieved 1 August 2016. "Galaxy 9". The...
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    The type-cD galaxy (also cD-type galaxy, cD galaxy) is a galaxy morphology classification, a subtype of type-D giant elliptical galaxy. Characterized by...
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    NGC 7720 (category 3C objects)
    "VLBI Observations of a Complete Sample of Radio Galaxies. VI. The Two FR I Radio Galaxies B2 0836+29 and 3C 465". The Astrophysical Journal. 454: 735....
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    3C 66B is an elliptical Fanaroff and Riley class 1 radio galaxy located in the constellation Andromeda. With an estimated redshift of 0.021258, the galaxy...
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    3C 303 is a Seyfert galaxy with a quasar-like appearance located in the constellation Boötes. 3C 303 is also a radio galaxy It also contains an extragalactic...
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    3C 236 is a Fanaroff and Riley Class II (FR II) radio galaxy. It is among the largest known radio galaxies, with the radio structure having a total linear...
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    and it was assumed that the cluster would be as well. In 1975, 3C 123 and its galaxy cluster was incorrectly determined to lie at z=0.637 (actually z=0...
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    west longitude. Other rented bandwidth included an analog service on Galaxy 3C and a digital service on SES-3. On April 12, 2007, Muzak Holdings, LLC...
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    NGC 3862 (category 3C objects)
    2018-09-03. Northover, K. J. E. (1976-11-01). "Observations of the Radio Galaxies 3C 264 and 3C 315". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 177 (2):...
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    megaparsecs (16×106 ly). For comparison, another similarly sized giant radio galaxy is 3C 236, with lobes 15 million light-years across. It should however be noted...
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    3C 305, also known as IC 1065, is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Draco. The galaxy is located 577 million light-years away from Earth...
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    3C 75 (also called 3C75) is a binary black hole system in the dumbbell-shaped galaxy NGC 1128 in the galaxy cluster Abell 400. It has four relativistic...
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