• 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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    than stars found in spiral galaxies. 3C 244.1 M49 (NGC 4472) M59 (NGC 4621) M60 (NGC 4649) M87 (NGC 4486), whose supermassive black hole was the first...
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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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    Yervant (1999). "Hubble Space Telescope Measurements of the Expansion of NGC 6543: Parallax Distance and Nebular Evolution". Astronomical Journal. 118...
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    NGC 3256 is a peculiar galaxy formed from the collision of two separate galaxies in the constellation of Vela. NGC 3256 is located about 100 million light-years...
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  • Beta Fornacis (redirect from CD-32 1025)
    67°. Located around three degrees to the southwest is the globular cluster NGC 1049. Vallenari, A.; et al. (Gaia collaboration) (2023). "Gaia Data Release...
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    star at the center of R136, the central concentration of stars of the large NGC 2070 open cluster in the Tarantula Nebula (30 Doradus) in the Large Magellanic...
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  • later be known as the NGC 134 Group, group G45 (Pavo-Indus) which would later be known as the NGC 7079, NGC 7144, NGC 7196 and NGC 7213 groups, and group...
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  • Orion, also known as the Orion Nebula. The New General Catalogue object NGC 42, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. In January 2004, asteroid...
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  • 37903 37903 26816 05h 41m 38.39s −02° 15′ 32.5″ 7.83 970 B1.5V illuminates NGC 2023; suspected variable HD 35298 V1156 35298 25235 05h 23m 50.36s +02° 04′ 55...
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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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    is hidden behind a compton thick absorber with a column density of NH ≃ 1025 cm−2 that covers 75% to 85% of the X-rays source. "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic...
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    is used for LBVs. S Doradus is the brightest member of the open cluster NGC 1910, also known as the LH41 stellar association, visible in binoculars as...
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    Astronomical Society. 278 (4): 1025–1048. arXiv:astro-ph/9603040. Bibcode:1996MNRAS.278.1025L. doi:10.1093/mnras/278.4.1025. S2CID 15246554. D. Mihalas (1968)...
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    Astronomers using the Very Large Telescope report the discovery of a black hole in NGC 1850 by viewing its influence on the motion of a star in close proximity...
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    Astronomical Society. 278 (4): 1025–1048. arXiv:astro-ph/9603040. Bibcode:1996MNRAS.278.1025L. doi:10.1093/mnras/278.4.1025. Dressler, A. (March 1980). "Galaxy...
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    triplet". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 431 (2): 1019–1025. arXiv:1302.0849. Bibcode:2013MNRAS.431.1019F. doi:10.1093/mnras/stt209....
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    candidate" associated with ASASSN-20hx, located near the nucleus of galaxy NGC 6297, and noted that the observation represented one of the "very few tidal...
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    in the same direction and at the same distance as the faint open cluster NGC 6169, although it is brighter than the combined magnitude of all the other...
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    terrestrial planet impact was detected around the star ID8 in the star cluster NGC 2547 by NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope and confirmed by ground observations...
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  • about 100,000 years after the Big Bang, for the first time in outer space in NGC 7027. 23 April – NASA reports that the Mars InSight lander detected its first...
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  • NGC 1662 1980 1981 2169 2175 2194 2202 Other Lambda Orionis Cluster Trapezium Cluster (θ1)...
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  • OCLC 15070181. Retrieved 26 May 2024. "Fuad l, 1922-1936, Mint State, Complete". NGC Registry. Retrieved 30 April 2022. "L'homme d'affaires égyptien Mohamed Al-Fayed...
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    for Massive Bodies. II. Theory". Physical Review Letters. 169 (1017): 1017–1025. Bibcode:1968PhRv..169.1017N. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.169.1017. Bonnor, William...
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    NGC 1662 1980 1981 2169 2175 2194 2202 Other Lambda Orionis Cluster Trapezium Cluster (θ1)...
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    Kwok, Sun (1 August 2012). "Discovery of a Halo around the Helix Nebula NGC 7293 in the WISE All-sky Survey". The Astrophysical Journal. 755 (1): 53...
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    NGC 1662 1980 1981 2169 2175 2194 2202 Other Lambda Orionis Cluster Trapezium Cluster (θ1)...
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    2009". Wikimedia Commons. "Nevada Gaming Commission List of Publications". NGC. Archived from the original on May 21, 2009. Retrieved December 11, 2008...
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    NGC 1662 1980 1981 2169 2175 2194 2202 Other Lambda Orionis Cluster Trapezium Cluster (θ1)...
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    NGC 1662 1980 1981 2169 2175 2194 2202 Other Lambda Orionis Cluster Trapezium Cluster (θ1)...
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