• Thumbnail for NGC 5364
    NGC 5364 is a grand design spiral galaxy located 54.5 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. It is inclined to the line of sight from the...
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  • Astronomical Database unless otherwise noted. Lists of astronomical objects List of NGC objects Collinder catalogue Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database Melotte catalogue...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 5247
    NGC 5247 is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy located some 60 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. It is a member of the Virgo II Groups...
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  • members of HCG 44 by Hunter Wilson NGC 6976 (lower right) and NGC 6977 (left) are part of HCG 88. Hubble image NGC 3718 and HCG 56 (bottom). Image from...
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  • Thumbnail for May 1972
    supernova in SN 1972e, in the galaxy NGC 5253, eleven million years after it had happened. Another supernova from NGC 5253 had been observed in 1895. Weeks...
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