NGC 265 is an open cluster of stars in the southern constellation of Tucana. It is located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy. The cluster...
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he identified the objects now designated Messier 41, Messier 47, NGC 2362 and NGC 2451. It was realized as early as 1767 that the stars in a cluster...
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(∼265 million light-years). The galaxy was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel on 13 April 1784. The Simbad database lists NGC 3914...
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ISSN 0004-6361. Plotner, Tammy (February 22, 2016). "Messier 4 (M4) – The NGC 6121 Globular Cluster". Universe Today. Retrieved January 25, 2024. distance...
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Small Magellanic Cloud (redirect from NGC 292)
Magellanic Clouds Objects within the Small Magellanic Cloud: NGC 265 NGC 290 NGC 346 NGC 602 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for Small Magellanic...
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2007). "Three clusters of the SMC from ACS/WFC HST archive data: NGC 265, K 29 and NGC 290 and their field population". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 466...
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Antennae Galaxies (redirect from UGCA 265)
The Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038/NGC 4039 or Caldwell 60/Caldwell 61) are a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Corvus. They...
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NGC 958 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Cetus. Its velocity with respect to the cosmic microwave background is 5505 ± 17 km/s, which...
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This is a list of NGC objects 1–1000 from the New General Catalogue (NGC). The astronomical catalogue is composed mainly of star clusters, nebulae, and...
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New General Catalogue (redirect from NGC object)
of Stars (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. The NGC contains 7,840 objects...
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