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    binaries BH Cen and V701 Sco in two extremely young galactic clusters IC 2944 and NGC 6383", New Astronomy, 12 (2): 117–123, Bibcode:2006NewA...12..117Q, doi:10...
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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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    IC 2944". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 131: 121–135. Bibcode:1965MNRAS.131..121T. doi:10.1093/mnras/131.1.121. SEDS: IC 2944 "Messier...
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  • Journal, explaining with evidence how the two globular clusters MGC1 and NGC 2419, another globular cluster 90,000 light-years (30 kpc) away from the...
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    Examples include the 30 Doradus region in the Large Magellanic Cloud and NGC 604 in the Triangulum Galaxy. The term H II is pronounced "H two" by astronomers...
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    identified the S Norma Cluster (NGC 6087) as NGC 6067 and incorrectly labelled the Lambda Centauri Cluster (IC 2944) as the Gamma Centauri Cluster. The...
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    in the H II region IC 2944, taken with the WFPC2 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope Bok globules located within the NGC 281 nebula (IC 1590 cluster)...
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    NGC 2903 is an isolated barred spiral galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Leo, positioned about 1.5° due south of Lambda Leonis. It was discovered...
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    NGC 2800, also known as PGC 26302, is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered February 17, 1831 by William Herschel. Skrutskie...
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    spectra of bound helium hydride". Physical Review Letters. 55 (27): 2941–2944. Bibcode:1985PhRvL..55.2941K. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.55.2941. PMID 10032281...
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  • Blanco. Caroline's Cluster (NGC 2360) is an open cluster in Canis Major, named after Caroline Herschel. Caroline's Rose (NGC 7789) is an open cluster in...
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    NGC 2509 is an open cluster in the constellation of Puppis. It was discovered on 3 December 1783 by William Herschel. It was described as "bright, pretty...
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    also contains the bright and colourful open cluster known as the Jewel Box (NGC 4755) on its eastern border. Nearby to the southeast is a large dark nebula...
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    disk galaxies". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 440 (4): 2944–2952. arXiv:1402.1166. Bibcode:2014MNRAS.440.2944K. doi:10.1093/mnras/stu338...
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    NGC 2950 is a lenticular galaxy in the northern constellation of Ursa Major, about 50 million light years from the Milky Way and receding with a heliocentric...
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    NGC 2803, also known as PCG 26181, is an elliptical or lenticular galaxy in the zodiac constellation Cancer. It was discovered March 21, 1784, by William...
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    Survey". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 429 (4): 2934–2944. arXiv:1211.5709. Bibcode:2013MNRAS.429.2934K. doi:10.1093/mnras/sts522....
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  • Thumbnail for List of Scottish inventions and discoveries
    Benzolhydrazofettsäuren". Berichte der Deutschen Chemischen Gesellschaft. 20 (2): 2942–2944. doi:10.1002/cber.188702002165. "Encyclopædia Britannica: Lord Boyd Orr"...
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