• Thumbnail for NGC 3184
    NGC 3184, the Little Pinwheel Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. Its name comes from...
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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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    Whirlpool Galaxy (redirect from NGC 5194)
    The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a (M51a) or NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus...
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    "Supernova 2008da in NGC 6845A". Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams. 1412: 1. Bibcode:2008CBET.1412....1M. Media related to NGC 6845 at Wikimedia Commons...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 1232
    NGC 1232, also known as the Eye of God Galaxy is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It was...
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    –18 27 14.3 S0 1.4 35 1730 NGC 1407 03 40.2 –18 35 10.9 E 5.1 125 1650 ESO 548-68 03 40.3 –18 56 14.3 E 1.3 35 1636 NGC 1412 03 40.5 –26 52 14.7 S0 1.4...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 7678
    NGC 7678 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pegasus. It is located at a distance of about 130 million light years from Earth...
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  • Thumbnail for List of most massive black holes
    Group galaxies M31 and M32, and a few galaxies beyond the Local Group, e.g. NGC 4395. In these galaxies, the mean square (or root mean square) velocities...
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    Messier 74 (redirect from NGC 628)
    Messier 74 (also known as NGC 628 and Phantom Galaxy) is a large spiral galaxy in the equatorial constellation Pisces. It is about 32 million light-years...
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    80. arXiv:1412.3996. Bibcode:2015ApJ...800...80L. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/800/2/80. hdl:2318/155075. S2CID 52993516. "Search specification: NGC 6120". HyperLeda...
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    Survey. I. Hα and H I Velocity Maps of Galaxy NGC 2280". The Astronomical Journal. 149 (3): 116. arXiv:1412.5444. Bibcode:2015AJ....149..116M. doi:10...
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    Signs of Supernova Enrichment: M22, NGC 1851, and NGC 288", The Astrophysical Journal Supplement, 216 (1): 13, arXiv:1412.1832, Bibcode:2015ApJS..216...19L...
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    290 (Romano's star, an unusually hot LBV) NGC 2403: V12 V37 V38 J025941.21+251412.2 J025941.54+251421.8 NGC 2363-V1 J122809.72+440514.8 J122817.83+440630...
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    deprivation in the field elliptical galaxy NGC 7507". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 574. id. A93. arXiv:1412.3402. Bibcode:2015A&A...574A..93L. doi:10...
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  • Thumbnail for Calabash Nebula
    the bright planetary nebula NGC 2438 in deep photographs. Although the Calabash Nebula is at the same distance as M46, NGC 2438 is a larger object in the...
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  • massive stars: observations centered on the Magellanic Cloud clusters NGC 330, NGC 346, NGC 2004, and the N11 region". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 456 (2): 623–638...
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    of the M74 Group. NGC 488 is an isolated face-on prototypical spiral galaxy. Two supernovae have been observed in the galaxy. NGC 520 is a pair of colliding...
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    Morrell, N. (2008). "Supernova 2008da in NGC 6845A". Central Bureau Electronic Telegrams. 1412: 1. Bibcode:2008CBET.1412....1M. Neuhäuser, R.; Ginski, C.; Schmidt...
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    been found to host planets. A few notable galaxies, including Crater 2 and NGC 3981, and a famous quasar lie within the borders of the constellation. In...
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    John Herschel. The French astronomer Abbé Lacaille listed NGC 104, NGC 4833, M 55, M 69, and NGC 6397 in his 1751–1752 catalogue. The low resolution of early...
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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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  • Evidence for Flat Cores in the Halos of Dwarf Galaxies? The Case of NGC 3109 and NGC 6822". The Astrophysical Journal. 657 (2): 773–789. arXiv:astro-ph/0509644...
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  • Thumbnail for List of most luminous stars
    massive stars: observations centered on the Magellanic Cloud clusters NGC 330, NGC 346, NGC 2004, and the N11 region". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 456 (2): 623–638...
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    WR 42e (category NGC 3603)
    (2MASS J11144550-115001) is a Wolf–Rayet star in the massive H II region NGC 3603 in the constellation of the Carina. It is around 25,000 light-years...
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  • what it was and why it exerted such a massive gravitational pull on galaxy NGC 4254. After years of ruling out other possible explanations, some have concluded...
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    obscuring our galaxy arm there. NGC 2818 is a planetary nebula that lies within a dim open cluster of magnitude 8.2. NGC 2818A is an open cluster that lies...
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    1784. NGC 4503 is a member of the Virgo Cluster. List of NGC objects (4001–5000) NGC 4754 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 4503. Retrieved...
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    the Apodizing Phase Plate". The Astrophysical Journal. 800 (1): 5. arXiv:1412.5179. Bibcode:2015ApJ...800....5M. doi:10.1088/0004-637X/800/1/5. S2CID 119211833...
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  • Thumbnail for Alpha Cassiopeiae
    celestial objects one can view close to this star—the Pacman Nebula, NGC 436 and NGC 457 being a few. Alpha Cas reaches its zenith above cities like Edinburgh...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 93
    The galaxy is currently interacting with NGC 90 and has some signs of interacting with it. NGC 93 and NGC 90 form the interacting galaxy pair Arp 65...
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