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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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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a list of notable galaxies. There are about 51 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000...
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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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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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NGC 7829 (category Peculiar galaxies)
pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies. The pair appears in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 144. Interacting galaxy List of NGC objects...
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Messier 66 (redirect from Spiral galaxy M66)
noted in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Infrared false color view of M66 from the Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared false color view of M66 from the James...
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Controversies is a 1987 book by Halton Arp, an astronomer famous for his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies (1966). Arp argued that many quasars with otherwise high redshift...
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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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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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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 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 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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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 2937 (category Elliptical galaxies)
earned it the nickname of the "porpoise galaxy". Together, these two galaxies appear in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies under the code Arp 142...
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NGC 4647 (category Spiral galaxies)
part of a pair of galaxies called Arp 116; their designation in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. The galaxy is located on the outskirts of the...
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Arp 146 (category Ring galaxies)
Vorontsov-Velyaminov as VV 790. Under the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies created by Halton Arp, they are categorized under galaxies that have associated rings. Arp...
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Bibcode:1987ApJ...314....3E. doi:10.1086/165034. Arp, H. (1966). "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies". Astrophysical Journal Supplement. 14: 1. Bibcode:1966ApJS.....
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NGC 7609 (category Elliptical galaxies)
and included in Halton Arp's, Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies in galaxies that produces jets. With a surface brightness of apparent magnitude 14.59, NGC 7609...
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UGC 1840 (category Peculiar galaxies)
source?] Both galaxies are listed as Arp 145 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies which was created by Halton Arp. They fall under the category of objects that...
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NGC 7828 (category Peculiar galaxies)
with its neighbor NGC 7829. The galaxy is included in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies in the elliptical galaxies emanating material category as...
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