The Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies is a catalog of peculiar galaxies produced by Halton Arp in 1966. A total of 338 galaxies are presented in the atlas, which...
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Arp mapped peculiar galaxies in his 1966 Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Arp states that "the peculiarities of the galaxies pictured in this Atlas represent...
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Halton Arp (category California Institute of Technology alumni)
1966 book Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which catalogued unusual looking galaxies and presented their images. Arp was also known as a critic of the Big Bang...
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Arp 240 (category Peculiar galaxies)
of interacting spiral galaxies located in the constellation Virgo. The two galaxies are listed together as Arp 240 in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies....
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a list of notable galaxies. There are about 51 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000...
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NGC 2937 (category Elliptical galaxies)
earned it the nickname of the "porpoise galaxy". Together, these two galaxies appear in Halton Arp 's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies under the code Arp 142...
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Arp 251 (category Peculiar galaxies)
constellation Cetus. Arp 251 is cataloged in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, which is a catalog of unusual galaxies put into groups based on purely morphological...
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Mayall's Object (category Interacting galaxies)
the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 148) is the result of two colliding galaxies located 500 million light years away within the constellation of Ursa...
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UGC 4881 (redirect from FUDGE (Galaxy))
is a peculiar spiral galaxy. It has been heavily documented by the Hubble Space Telescope, and is cataloged in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. UGC 4881...
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Hickson 44 (category Galaxy stubs)
group of galaxies in the constellation Leo. As Arp 316, a part of this group is also designated as group of galaxies in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. "NASA/IPAC...
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NGC 5394 (category Barred spiral galaxies)
5394 and NGC 5395 are a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies that appear in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies under the designation Arp 84...
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NGC 7829 (category Peculiar galaxies)
pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies. The pair appears in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 144. Interacting galaxy List of NGC objects...
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NGC 7393 (category Peculiar galaxies)
Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies List of NGC objects (7001–7840) "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for NGC 7393. Retrieved 2024-04-21. "ARP Atlas...
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UGC 1775 (category Peculiar galaxies)
years across. The galaxy is included in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies in the galaxies with split arms category. The galaxy features a bright...
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NGC 5278 (category Peculiar galaxies)
the galaxy NGC 5279. This pair of galaxies appears in the Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies under the symbol Arp 239. The luminosity class of NGC...
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Leo Triplet (redirect from M66 group of galaxies)
(1988). Nearby Galaxies Catalog. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-35299-1. H. Arp (1966). "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies". Astrophysical...
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Arp 60 (category Principal Galaxies Catalogue objects)
light-years away and as such makes a galaxy pair with Arp 60. Together, they are part of the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies which was created by Halton Arp. In...
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NGC 2782 (category Peculiar galaxies)
galaxy. NGC 2782 is mentioned in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies in the category galaxies with adjacent loops. The nucleus and circumnuclear region of...
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Centaurus A (redirect from Centaurus A Galaxy)
Carnegie Atlas of Galaxies. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington. ISBN 978-0-87279-667-6. H. Arp (1966). "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies". Astrophysical...
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Arp 220 (category Spiral galaxies)
result of a collision between two galaxies which are now in the process of merging. It is the 220th object in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Arp...
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NGC 5279 (category Peculiar galaxies)
the galaxy NGC 5278. This pair of galaxies appears in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies under the designation Arp 239. The luminosity class of NGC...
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NGC 4647 (category Spiral galaxies)
part of a pair of galaxies called Arp 116; their designation in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. The galaxy is located on the outskirts of the...
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NGC 4631 (redirect from Herring Galaxy)
elliptical galaxy, NGC 4627. NGC 4627 and NGC 4631 together were listed in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as an example of a "double galaxy" or a galaxy pair...
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Arp 273 (redirect from Rose galaxy)
pair of interacting galaxies, 300 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was first described in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, compiled...
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IC 4271 (category Spiral galaxies)
Both galaxies form Arp 40. In the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies created by Halton Arp, they fall under spiral galaxies that have companions with low-surface-brightness...
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Astrophysics Cosmology Physical cosmology Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies David Dunlap Observatory Catalogue Lyon-Meudon...
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Messier 66 (redirect from Spiral galaxy M66)
noted in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies. Infrared false color view of M66 from the Spitzer Space Telescope Infrared false color view of M66 from the James...
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UGC 2812 (category Peculiar galaxies)
elliptical galaxy. Moreover, they present a near-infrared spectra which could result from starbursts. Both objects are part of Atlas of Peculiar galaxies, where...
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Bibcode:1987ApJ...314....3E. doi:10.1086/165034. Arp, H. (1966). "Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies". Astrophysical Journal Supplement. 14: 1. Bibcode:1966ApJS.....
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