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    NGC 1024 is a large spiral galaxy of type Sab located in the constellation Aries. Its speed relative to the cosmic microwave background is 3,306 ± 16 km/s...
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  • Thumbnail for Virgo III Groups
    5506 NGC 5507 UGC 9057 NGC 5566 Group: NGC 5560 NGC 5566 NGC 5569 NGC 5574 NGC 5576 NGC 5577 UGC 9215 NGC 5638 Group: IC 1024 NGC 5636 NGC 5638 NGC 5668...
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    NGC 5638, NGC 5668, NGC 5690, NGC 5691, NGC 5692, NGC 5701, NGC 5705, NGC 5713, NGC 5725, NGC 5740, NGC 5746, NGC 5750, IC 1022, IC 1024 and IC 1048...
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  • Thumbnail for Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
    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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  • This is a list of NGC objects 1001–2000 from the New General Catalogue (NGC). The astronomical catalogue is composed mainly of star clusters, nebulae...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 5135
    NGC 5135 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Hydra. It is located at a distance of about 200 million light years from Earth. It was...
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    NGC 691 is an unbarred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Aries. It is located at a distance of circa 120 million light years from Earth, which...
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    NGC 5982 is an elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Draco. It is located at a distance of circa 130 million light years from Earth, which, given...
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    nucleus of NGC 2273 is obscured by a Compton thick column, with high column density, estimated to be 1.1×1024 cm−2 as measured by ASCA, or 1.5×1024 cm−2 as...
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    include NGC 7057, IC 5105, NGC 7087, NGC 7060, NGC 7072, NGC 7075, NGC 7110, IC 5128, and IC 5139. Near NGC 7130 lie also the distorted NGC 7135, 18...
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  • 10.0 galaxy in the constellation Virgo. The New General Catalogue object NGC 49, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Cetus. In Judaism: the number of...
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  • Thumbnail for Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
    UV/visible detecting CCDs, each 2048x4096 pixels, and a separate IR CCD of 1024 x 1024, capable of receiving infrared radiation up to 1700 nm. Other HST instruments :...
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    suggested that the nucleus of NGC 1386 is obscured by a Compton thick column, with high column density, estimated to be (5±1)×1024 cm−2 as measured by NuSTAR...
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    Yervant (1999). "Hubble Space Telescope Measurements of the Expansion of NGC 6543: Parallax Distance and Nebular Evolution". Astronomical Journal. 118...
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  • black holes up to 21 billion (2.1 × 1010) M☉ have been detected, such as NGC 4889.) Unlike stellar mass black holes, supermassive black holes have comparatively...
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  • Thumbnail for List of Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launches (2020–2022)
    February 2019. The contract requirements for this launch called for a 1220 km × 1024 km orbit at 63.5° inclination, which corresponds to a Naval Reconnaissance...
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  • 889,721,787,128,217,599 (≈2.8×1024) is the fifth Woodall prime. Mathematics: 3,608,528,850,368,400,786,036,725 (≈3.6×1024) is the largest polydivisible...
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  • equal to: 2047 = 32 2 + ( 31 × 33 ) = 1024 + 1023 = 2 11 − 1. {\displaystyle 2047=32^{2}+(31\times 33)=1024+1023=2^{11}-1.} The product of the five...
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    light-years=24; where "65.00 × 60.0 (arcmin)" sourced from Revised NGC Data for NGC 1976 distance × sin( diameter_angle ), using distance of 5kpc (15.8...
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  • Thumbnail for The Scale of the Universe
    3 × 1023 meters Yottameter 1024 meters 1024 meters Virgo Supercluster 1.5 × 1024 meters 110 million light years 1.1 × 1024 meters Distance to the Great...
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    (1968). "Absolute magnitudes of supernovae". Astronomical Journal. 73: 1021–1024. Bibcode:1968AJ.....73.1021K. doi:10.1086/110763. Leibundgut, B.; Sollerman...
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  • neutron stars and black holes. The pair are located in the globular cluster NGC 1851. Two insect-like robots, a mini-bug and a water strider, are reported...
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    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...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 4324
    NGC 4324 is a lenticular galaxy located about 85 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. It was discovered by astronomer Heinrich d'Arrest...
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  • Thumbnail for CoRoT
    CoRoT. Among them HD 46150 and HD 46223 (members of the galactic cluster NGC 2264) and HD 46966 (member of the OB association Mon OB2) do not seem to...
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  • Thumbnail for Advanced Camera for Surveys
    ultra-sharp views over a smaller field-of-view. The HRC detector was a 1024×1024 SITe CCD which had a smaller field-of-view (26"×29") than the WFC but...
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    stellar designations. The observable universe contains an estimated 1022 to 1024 stars. Only about 4,000 of these stars are visible to the naked eye—all within...
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    Laboratories (STL), the site is now owned and operated by Northrop Grumman Corp. (NGC) since its 2002 acquisition of TRW Inc. This group of buildings became the...
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  • Thumbnail for UGC 5101
    A second tidal tail appears to loop around the nucleus, forming a ring. NGC 6240 and Markarian 273 - two other near ultraluminous infrared galaxies with...
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    Figure 1: Tidal interaction between the spiral galaxy NGC 169 and a smaller companion...
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