NGC 5996 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Serpens. The galaxy lies about 125 million light years away from Earth, which means, given its...
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NGC 2207 and IC 2163 are a pair of colliding spiral galaxies about 80 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. NGC 2207 was discovered...
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(2021). "Isochrone fitting of Galactic globular clusters – III. NGC 288, NGC 362, and NGC 6218 (M12)". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...
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NGC 2903 is an isolated barred spiral galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Leo, positioned about 1.5° due south of Lambda Leonis. It was discovered...
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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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NGC 2800, also known as PGC 26302, is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered February 17, 1831 by William Herschel. Skrutskie...
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NGC 2950 is a lenticular galaxy in the northern constellation of Ursa Major, about 50 million light years from the Milky Way and receding with a heliocentric...
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NGC 2509 is an open cluster in the constellation of Puppis. It was discovered on 3 December 1783 by William Herschel. It was described as "bright, pretty...
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New Stellar Chronometer". Astrophysical Journal. 787 (2): 108. arXiv:1403.2741. Bibcode:2014ApJ...787..108G. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/787/2/108. S2CID 118626928...
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NGC 2803, also known as PCG 26181, is an elliptical or lenticular galaxy in the zodiac constellation Cancer. It was discovered March 21, 1784, by William...
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is probably due to a past collision, possibly with the nearby NGC 4027A. NGC 4782 and NGC 4783 are a pair of merging elliptical galaxies in the northeastern...
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brightness galaxies". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 464 (3): 2741–2751. arXiv:1609.07544. doi:10.1093/mnras/stw2506. ISSN 0035-8711. Hinz,...
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50; in 1940, Oort discovered and wrote about the large non-visible halo of NGC 3115. The hypothesis of dark matter largely took root in the 1970s. Several...
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82s −57° 53′ 59.2″ 6.45 −3.18 2741 F9Ib Cepheid variable, Vmax = 6.12m, Vmin = 6.77m, P = 9.75411 d; member of the NGC 6087 star cluster HD 139915 139915...
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Neptune in the habitable zone". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 551: 7. arXiv:1301.2741. Bibcode:2013A&A...551A..59L. doi:10.1051/0004-6361/201220415. S2CID 116916728...
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evidence of phosphorus mononitride in giant molecular clouds within the galaxy, NGC 253. This finding marks phosphorus mononitride as the first extragalactic...
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