• Thumbnail for NGC 4214
    NGC 4214 is a dwarf barred irregular galaxy located around 10 million light-years away in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered on 28 April...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 3949
    NGC 3949 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, approximately 50 million light-years away from the Earth. It was discovered by...
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    NGC 3938 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the Ursa Major constellation. It was discovered on 6 February 1788 by William Herschel. It is one of the brightest...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 3607
    NGC 3607 is a small but fairly bright lenticular galaxy in the equatorial constellation of Leo, about 2.5° south of the prominent star Delta Leonis. The...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 3686
    NGC 3686 is a spiral galaxy that forms with three other spiral galaxies, NGCs 3681, 3684, and 3691, a quartet of galaxies in the Leo constellation. It...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 3593
    NGC 3593 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Leo. It has a morphological classification of SA(s)0/a, which indicates it is a lenticular...
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  • Thumbnail for Type II Cepheid
    luminous, have been detected beyond the Local Group in the galaxies NGC 5128 and NGC 4258. Historically Type II Cepheids were called W Virginis variables...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 3818
    NGC 3818 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo. It is at a distance of about 118 million light-years away from Earth. In the center of NGC...
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  • Thumbnail for Hanny's Voorwerp
    bubbles The Voorwerpje around NGC 5972 The Voorwerpje around SDSS 1510+07 The Voorwerpje around UGC 7342 The Voorwerpje around NGC 5252 The Voorwerpje around...
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  • Thumbnail for NGC 3877
    NGC 3877 is a type Sc spiral galaxy that was discovered by William Herschel on February 5, 1788. It is located below the magnitude 3.7 star Chi Ursae...
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