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    NGC 1210 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Fornax, about 179 million light-years from the Milky Way. It was discovered by the...
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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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    Results from WIYN Imaging of NGC 1023, NGC 1055, NGC 7332, and NGC 7339". The Astronomical Journal. 144 (4): 103. arXiv:1210.4476. Bibcode:2012AJ....144...
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    inside their error box - the later HEAO 1 detected an X-ray source of NGC 4151 at 1H 1210+393, coincident with the optical position of the nucleus and outside...
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    Messier 95 (redirect from NGC 3351)
    Messier 95, also known as M95 or NGC 3351, is a barred spiral galaxy about 33 million light-years away in the zodiac constellation Leo. It was discovered...
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    1927–1943. arXiv:1210.1126. Bibcode:2013MNRAS.428.1927C. doi:10.1093/mnras/sts145. "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 7793. Retrieved...
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    NGC 2139 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Lepus. It was discovered on November 17, 1784, by the German-English astronomer William Herschel...
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    NGC 4564 is an elliptical galaxy located about 57 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. NGC 4564 was discovered by astronomer William Herschel...
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    M51a (Whirlpool Galaxy), NGC 300, NGC 772. Examples of barred spiral galaxies: M91, M95, NGC 1097, NGC 1300, NGC1672, NGC 2536, NGC 2903. Galaxies that do...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 4026
    NGC 4026 is an edge-on lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It is located at a distance of circa 50 million light years from Earth, which...
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    Markarian 590 (redirect from NGC 863)
    Markarian 590, also known as NGC 863, NGC 866, and NGC 885, is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It is located at a distance of about...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 4473
    NGC 4473 is an elliptical galaxy located about 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices. It was discovered by astronomer William...
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    428 (3): 1927–1943. arXiv:1210.1126. Bibcode:2013MNRAS.428.1927C. doi:10.1093/mnras/sts145. ">New General Catalog Objects: NGC 150 - 199". Retrieved 2015-09-30...
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    in the counter-rotating stellar disks of NGC 3593 and NGC 4550", Astronomy & Astrophysics, 549: A3, arXiv:1210.7807, Bibcode:2013A&A...549A...3C, doi:10...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 4111
    the NGC 4111 group are the galaxies UGC 6818, NGC 3938, NGC 4013, IC 749, IC 750, NGC 4051, UGC 7089, UGC 7094, NGC 4117, NGC 4138 and NGC 4183. NGC 4111...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 664
    NGC 664 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation of Pisces. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 5137 ± 21 km/s, which corresponds...
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    Messier 22 (redirect from NGC 6656)
    Messier 22 or M22, also known as NGC 6656 or the Great Sagittarius Cluster, is an elliptical globular cluster of stars in the constellation Sagittarius...
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    Messier 87 (redirect from NGC 4486)
    Messier 87 (also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, generally abbreviated to M87) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 1637
    1927–1943. arXiv:1210.1126. Bibcode:2013MNRAS.428.1927C. doi:10.1093/mnras/sts145. "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 1512, Co-Moving...
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  • Thumbnail for List of dark nebulae
    close dark nebula of the Corona Australis Molecular Cloud, which includes NGC 6729 SL 41 LDN 43 (Cosmic Bat Nebula) LDN 193 LDN 206 LDN 208 LDN 535 LDN...
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  • Thumbnail for Coma Berenices
    galaxy NGC 4789A NGC 4565 (Needle Galaxy) NGC 4651, with umbrella-shaped stellar streams The constellation Coma Berenices hosts the galaxy NGC 4495 among...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 4306
    velocity and similar distance as NGC 4305 suggest that NGC 4306 is a background galaxy. NGC 4306 is a companion of NGC 4305 and appears to be interacting...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 3665
    NGC 3665 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Ursa Major. It is located at a distance of circa 85 million light-years from Earth, which...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 4030
    NGC 4030 is a grand design spiral galaxy located about 64 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. It is a member of the NGC 4030 Group of...
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  • Thumbnail for H II region
    Examples include the 30 Doradus region in the Large Magellanic Cloud and NGC 604 in the Triangulum Galaxy. The term H II is pronounced "H two" by astronomers...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 1436
    NGC 1436 (also called NGC 1437) is a barred spiral galaxy with LINER activity approximately 58 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 1428
    NGC 1428 is a peculiar galaxy of an uncertain morphology; either an elliptical or lenticular galaxy located approximately 65 million light-years away...
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  • Thumbnail for Galaxy group
    simulations of cosmological volumes. The closest fossil group to the Milky Way is NGC 6482, an elliptical galaxy at a distance of approximately 180 million light-years...
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    SALUCCI P. Dark matter in early-type spiral galaxies: the case of NGC 2179 and of NGC 2775. Astron. Astrophys., 342, 671-686 1999 BERTOLA F., CORSINI E...
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  • Thumbnail for Central massive object
    identified with the NSC. A few galaxies, for instance the Milky Way and NGC 4395, are known to contain both a SBH and a NSC. Although this is suggestive...
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