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    galaxy with a similar shape List of NGC objects (5001–6000) NGC 5495 at NASA/IPAC NGC 5495 at SIMBAD NGC 5495 at SEDS NGC 5495 at LEDA "Astrovalley Field"...
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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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    extension), Leo II, Virgo III, Crater (NGC 3672), Leo I, Leo Minor (NGC 2841), Draco (NGC 5907), Antlia (NGC 2997), and NGC 5643. Of the luminous galaxies located...
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    NGC 4325 is an elliptical galaxy located about 330 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest...
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    arXiv:1102.1316. Bibcode:2011A&A...528A.107B. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201016389. ISSN 0004-6361. Media related to NGC 4320 at Wikimedia Commons NGC 4320...
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    than stars found in spiral galaxies. 3C 244.1 M49 (NGC 4472) M59 (NGC 4621) M60 (NGC 4649) M87 (NGC 4486), whose supermassive black hole was the first...
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    NGC 3509 known as Arp 335, is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Leo. It is located 340 million light-years from the Solar System. NGC...
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    NGC 654 is an open cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1787. With apparent magnitude 6.5, it can be observed...
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    NGC 5965 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Draco. It is located at a distance of circa 150 million light years from Earth, which, given...
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    888–912. arXiv:1102.4444. Bibcode:2011MNRAS.414..888E. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18496.x. S2CID 2707378. Rojas, Sebastián García. "Galaxy NGC 4733 - Galaxy...
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    Messier 10 (redirect from NGC 6254)
    in the Globular Cluster M10 (NGC 6254)", The Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, 120 (872): 1097–1102, arXiv:0808.2480, Bibcode:2008PASP...
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    NGC 6951 (also catalogued as NGC 6952) is a barred spiral galaxy located in constellation Cepheus. It is located at a distance of about 75 million light-years...
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    NGC 4665, also catalogued as NGC 4624 and NGC 4664, is a barred lenticular or spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo. It is a member of the...
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    Messier 67 (redirect from NGC 2682)
    Messier 67 (also known as M67 or NGC 2682) and sometimes called the King Cobra Cluster or the Golden Eye Cluster is an open cluster in the southern, equatorial...
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    M51a (Whirlpool Galaxy), NGC 300, NGC 772. Examples of barred spiral galaxies: M91, M95, NGC 1097, NGC 1300, NGC1672, NGC 2536, NGC 2903. Galaxies that do...
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    NGC 663 (also known as Caldwell 10) is a young open cluster in the constellation of Cassiopeia. It has an estimated 400 stars and spans about a quarter...
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    proposed, showing that the rotation curves for the Milky Way, NGC 3031, NGC 3198 and NGC 7331 are consistent with the mass density distributions of the...
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  • Thumbnail for Coma Berenices
    galaxy NGC 4789A NGC 4565 (Needle Galaxy) NGC 4651, with umbrella-shaped stellar streams The constellation Coma Berenices hosts the galaxy NGC 4495 among...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 3665
    NGC 3665 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. It is located at a distance of circa 85 million light-years from Earth, which...
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    Hickson 44 group NGC 3259, also a strong source of X-rays NGC 3783, also a strong source of X-rays NGC 3982, also a starburst galaxy NGC 4151, which has...
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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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    Spiral galaxies of different morphological types in the SDSS NGC 4314 (SBa) M95 (SBb) NGC 3367 (SBc) The spiral structure of galaxies exhibits considerable...
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    galaxies, including M51 (Arp 85), Arp 220, and the Antennae Galaxies (NGC 4038/NGC 4039, or Arp 244). A few of the galaxies are simply dwarf galaxies that...
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    in 1940 Jan Oort discovered and wrote about the large non-visible halo of NGC 3115. Early radio astronomy observations, performed by Seth Shostak, later...
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    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 414 (3): 2446–2457. arXiv:1102.4340. Bibcode:2011MNRAS.414.2446M. doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18564.x....
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  • Zielona Góra: 262–264. doi:10.7151/DMGAA.1088. MR 2151717. S2CID 14752211. Zbl 1102.17001. Venerabilis, Beda (May 13, 2020) [731 AD]. "Historia Ecclesiastica...
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    Supergiants: The Effects of Metallicity". The Astrophysical Journal. 645 (2): 1102–1117. arXiv:astro-ph/0603596. Bibcode:2006ApJ...645.1102L. doi:10.1086/504417...
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    finite cosmological constant". Annalen der Physik. 523 (5): 423–434. arXiv:1102.2626. Bibcode:2011AnP...523..423T. doi:10.1002/andp.201100038. S2CID 118500485...
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    Pleiades (category NGC objects)
    eye in the night sky. It is also observed to house the reflection nebula NGC 1432, an HII region. The cluster is dominated by hot blue luminous stars...
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    were discovered in the very young region NGC 2024, two of which have been photoevaporated by a B star. The NGC 2024 proplyds are significant because they...
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