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    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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    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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  • 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 3800 (category Peculiar galaxies)
    interacting galaxies and appear in Halton Arp's Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies under the symbol Arp 83. Halton Arp describes these as an example of galaxies by presenting...
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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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    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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    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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    consistent with similar early-type galaxies. A number of small galaxies have been found around NGC 1023, the collection of which is labelled the "NGC 1023...
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