million light-years away. NGC 877 is the brightest member of an 8-galaxy group that also includes NGC 870, NGC 871, and NGC 876, with a magnitude of 12...
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Messier 52 (redirect from NGC 7654)
doi:10.5479/ADS/bib/1930LicOB.14.154T. Luo, Y. P.; et al. (February 2012), "Discovery of 14 New Slowly Pulsating B Stars in the Open Cluster NGC 7654"...
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NGC 5364 is a grand design spiral galaxy located 54.5 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. It is inclined to the line of sight from the...
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Carina Nebula (redirect from NGC 3372)
The Carina Nebula or Eta Carinae Nebula (catalogued as NGC 3372; also known as the Great Carina Nebula) is a large, complex area of bright and dark nebulosity...
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Ursa Minor (redirect from HR 5479)
Milky Way itself. NGC 3172 (also known as Polarissima Borealis) is a faint, magnitude-14.9 galaxy that happens to be the closest NGC object to the north...
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lines. Galaxies observed as part of this study included NGC 1068, NGC 4151, NGC 3516, and NGC 7469. Active galaxies such as these are known as Seyfert...
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were discovered in the very young region NGC 2024, two of which have been photoevaporated by a B star. The NGC 2024 proplyds are significant because they...
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NGC 5247 is a face-on unbarred spiral galaxy located some 60 million light years away in the constellation Virgo. It is a member of the Virgo II Groups...
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in 1940 Jan Oort discovered and wrote about the large non-visible halo of NGC 3115. Early radio astronomy observations, performed by Seth Shostak, later...
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spectrograph to extend its usefulness in the face of larger telescopes. NGC 185 was first photographed between 1898 and 1900 by James Edward Keeler with...
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