• Carl Keenan Seyfert (February 11, 1911 – June 13, 1960) was an American astronomer. He is best known for his 1943 research paper on high-excitation line...
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    the size of the Milky Way. Seyfert galaxies are named after Carl Seyfert, who first described this class in 1943. Seyfert galaxies were first detected...
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    Seyfert is a prominent lunar impact crater that is located on the far side of the Moon. It was named after American astronomer Carl Keenan Seyfert. It...
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    co;2. International Tectonic Dictionary – AAPG Memoir 7, 1967 The Encyclopedia of Structural Geology and Plate Tectonics – Ed. by Carl K. Seyfert, 1987...
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    individual galaxies in the group. The group members were discovered by Carl Keenan Seyfert using photographic plates made at the Barnard Observatory of Vanderbilt...
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  • Bibcode:1939LicOB..19...33M. doi:10.5479/ADS/bib/1939LicOB.19.33M. Seyfert, Carl K. (1943). "Nuclear Emission in Spiral Nebulae". The Astrophysical Journal...
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    NGC 7469 (category Seyfert galaxies)
    2 Seyfert galaxy and one of the most well studied Seyfert galaxies. In 1943, this galaxy was one of six nebulae listed by American astronomer Carl K. Seyfert...
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    NGC 3516 (category Seyfert galaxies)
    astronomer Carl Keenan Seyfert that showed broad emission lines in their nuclei. Members of this class of objects became known as Seyfert galaxies, and...
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    IRAS 13218+0552 (category Seyfert galaxies)
    light-years away from Earth. It is a Seyfert galaxy and a luminous infrared galaxy. IRAS 13218+0552 is classified as a Seyfert type 1.5 galaxy given its large...
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    NGC 5548 (category Seyfert galaxies)
    astronomer Carl Keenan Seyfert that showed broad emission lines in their nuclei. Members of this class of objects became known as Seyfert galaxies, and...
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