this category are interacting or have recently undergone interactions. NGC 3712 (Arp 203) is an exception; it is merely a low surface brightness spiral...
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NGC 1316 (also known as Fornax A) is a lenticular galaxy about 60 million light-years (18.4 million parsecs) away in the constellation Fornax. It is a...
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NGC 3607 is a small but fairly bright lenticular galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Leo, about 2.5° south of the prominent star Delta Leonis. The...
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Alpha Cassiopeiae (redirect from HD 3712)
celestial objects one can view close to this star—the Pacman Nebula, NGC 436 and NGC 457 being a few. Alpha Cas reaches its zenith above cities like Edinburgh...
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NGC 3686 is a spiral galaxy that forms with three other spiral galaxies, NGCs 3681, 3684, and 3691, a quartet of galaxies in the Leo constellation. It...
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NGC 3599 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by William Herschel on March 14, 1784. The galaxy is located at a...
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NGC 3938 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the Ursa Major constellation. It was discovered on 6 February 1788 by William Herschel. It is one of the brightest...
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NGC 3949 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, approximately 50 million light-years away from the Earth. It was discovered by...
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NGC 3877 is a type Sc spiral galaxy that was discovered by William Herschel on February 5, 1788. It is located below the magnitude 3.7 star Chi Ursae...
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NGC 606 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the Pisces constellation about 470 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the French...
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HD HIP RA Dec vis. mag. abs. mag. Dist. (ly) Sp. class Notes α Cas α 18 3712 3179 00h 40m 30.39s +56° 32′ 14.7″ 2.24 −1.99 228 K0II-IIIvar Schedar β Cas...
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NGC 3593 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Leo. It has a morphological classification of SA(s)0/a, which indicates it is a lenticular...
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NGC 3818 is an elliptical galaxy in the Constellation Virgo. It is at a distance of about 118 million light-years away from Earth. In the center of NGC...
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RCW 38". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 471 (3): 3699–3712. arXiv:1707.00277. Bibcode:2017MNRAS.471.3699M. doi:10.1093/mnras/stx1906...
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CIRCUMBINARY PLANET KEPLER-38b", The Astrophysical Journal, 758 (2): 87, arXiv:1208.3712, Bibcode:2012ApJ...758...87O, doi:10.1088/0004-637X/758/2/87, S2CID 119226095...
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