NGC 710 is a spiral galaxy located 260 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by the Irish engineer and astronomer...
7 KB (543 words) - 00:04, 6 June 2023
NGC 3049 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Leo. Its velocity relative to the cosmic microwave background is 1793 ± 24 km/s, which...
4 KB (300 words) - 05:19, 19 November 2024
This is a list of NGC objects 1–1000 from the New General Catalogue (NGC). The astronomical catalogue is composed mainly of star clusters, nebulae, and...
131 KB (310 words) - 16:53, 25 September 2024
Omega Centauri (redirect from NGC 5139)
Omega Centauri (ω Cen, NGC 5139, or Caldwell 80) is a globular cluster in the constellation of Centaurus that was first identified as a non-stellar object...
25 KB (2,450 words) - 19:28, 19 December 2024
coalescing. Arp 148, VV 340, Arp 256, NGC 6670, NGC 6240, ESO 593-8, NGC 454, UGC 8335, NGC 6786, NGC 17, ESO 77-14, NGC 6050 NGC 6240 imaged by the Cerro Tololo...
10 KB (979 words) - 20:28, 14 December 2024
a member of the NGC 4065 Group. NGC 4074 is classified as a type 2 Seyfert galaxy. It was first identified as a Seyfert in 1978. NGC 4074 has a supermassive...
6 KB (542 words) - 00:03, 17 July 2024
Messier 77 (redirect from NGC 1068)
"Infrared Spectroscopy of NGC 1068: Probing the Obscured Ionizing AGN Continuum", The Astrophysical Journal, 536 (2): 710–717, arXiv:astro-ph/0002107...
27 KB (1,140 words) - 15:53, 8 November 2024
NGC 660 is a peculiar and unique polar-ring galaxy located approximately 45 million light-years from Earth in the Pisces constellation. It is the only...
5 KB (499 words) - 20:16, 6 January 2024
members of the group include NGC 917, NGC 940, NGC 969, NGC 973, NGC 974, NGC 978, NGC 987, NGC 983, NGC 1060, NGC 1066, NGC 1067, and UGC 2105. On the...
10 KB (1,070 words) - 13:16, 18 July 2024
Andromeda Galaxy (redirect from NGC 224)
originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31, M31, and NGC 224. Andromeda has a D25 isophotal diameter of about 46.56 kiloparsecs (152...
111 KB (10,918 words) - 00:34, 24 December 2024
is much shorter than the lifetime of the galaxy. For example, the nebula NGC 6334 has a star formation rate estimated to be 3600 solar masses per million...
4 KB (561 words) - 20:11, 25 July 2024
Group galaxies M31 and M32, and a few galaxies beyond the Local Group, e.g. NGC 4395. In these galaxies, the mean square (or root mean square) velocities...
80 KB (5,911 words) - 00:19, 9 December 2024
Messier 41 (redirect from NGC 2287)
Messier 41 (also known as M41 or NGC 2287) is an open cluster in the constellation Canis Major. It is sometimes referred to as the Little Beehive Cluster...
5 KB (548 words) - 17:29, 23 July 2024
Seyfert's Sextet (redirect from NGC 6027 Sextet)
but one of the galaxies, NGC 6027d, is a background object (700 million light years behind the group) and another "galaxy," NGC 6027e, is actually a part...
5 KB (320 words) - 02:38, 15 October 2024
8 January 2013. "Air Crash Investigation". National Geographic Channel. NGC Europe Limited. 2014. Archived from the original on 26 June 2023. Retrieved...
237 KB (811 words) - 09:15, 24 December 2024
NGC 7013 is a relatively nearby spiral or lenticular galaxy estimated to be around 37 to 41.4 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation...
7 KB (708 words) - 16:07, 19 August 2024
cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia, also known as NGC 7654. The New General Catalogue object NGC 52, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. Fifty-two...
5 KB (539 words) - 11:21, 28 November 2024
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...
35 KB (4,404 words) - 16:45, 13 October 2024
massive stars: observations centered on the Magellanic Cloud clusters NGC 330, NGC 346, NGC 2004, and the N11 region". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 456 (2): 623–638...
171 KB (10,597 words) - 16:28, 21 December 2024
observers on Earth. NGC 6027 NGC 6027b NGC 6027c NGC 6027d NGC 6027e Seyfert's Sextet "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 6027a. Retrieved...
2 KB (82 words) - 19:47, 28 June 2023
constellation Serpens. NGC 6027 NGC 6027a NGC 6027b NGC 6027d NGC 6027e Seyfert's Sextet "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 6027c. Retrieved 2007-04-17...
2 KB (57 words) - 19:47, 5 June 2023
photometric search for peculiar stars in open clusters. V. NGC 2099, NGC 3114, NGC 6204, NGC 6705 and NGC 6756". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 412 (3): 721–725...
34 KB (1,622 words) - 22:35, 16 July 2024
S2CID 203593402. Neugent, Kathryn (2022). "Locating Red Supergiants in the Galaxy NGC 6822". The Astronomical Journal. 163 (2): 70. arXiv:2112.03990. Bibcode:2022AJ...
250 KB (10,635 words) - 08:02, 21 December 2024
cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus. The New General Catalogue object NGC 9, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. The purity of chemicals...
23 KB (2,431 words) - 00:17, 22 December 2024
NGC 4062, NGC 4136, NGC 4173, NGC 4203, NGC 4245, NGC 4251, NGC 4274, NGC 4283, NGC 4310, NGC 4314, NGC 4359, NGC 4414, NGC 4509, and NGC 4525. Another...
15 KB (1,783 words) - 00:06, 17 July 2024
galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. The New General Catalogue object NGC 82, a single star in the constellation Andromeda. Eighty-two is also: The...
3 KB (300 words) - 08:54, 19 October 2024
elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. The New General Catalogue object NGC 89, a magnitude 13.5 peculiar spiral galaxy in the constellation Phoenix...
6 KB (632 words) - 12:03, 18 November 2024
in the Andromeda Galaxy. A second supernova, SN 1895B, was discovered in NGC 5253 a decade later. Early work on what was originally believed to be simply...
201 KB (21,949 words) - 05:53, 23 December 2024
the cluster lies NGC 1399. Other cluster members include NGC 1316 (the group's brightest galaxy), NGC 1365, NGC 1427A, NGC 1427 and NGC 1404. Fornax can...
12 KB (561 words) - 12:19, 19 July 2024
constellation Lyra, also known as the Ring Nebula The New General Catalogue object NGC 57, an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces. Passenger 57, a film...
6 KB (807 words) - 18:51, 22 November 2024