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Named after its discoverer, Eric Lindsay, his professor Harlow Shapley, and its nature as a ring galaxy. [citation needed] The ring is the result of collision with another galaxy [citation needed] Little Sombrero Galaxy: Pegasus: Named after its similarity to the Sombrero Galaxy. [citation needed] Malin 1: Coma Berenices: Discovered and named ...
Clara cell – Max Clara (1899–1966), German anatomist (renamed to Club cell after Max Clara's Nazi activities were discovered) Cloquet's canal – Jules Cloquet (1790–1883), French Anatomist; Colles' fascia – Abraham Colles (1773–1843), Irish surgeon; Cooper's fascia – Astley Cooper (1768–1841), English surgeon
This is a list of astronomical objects named after people.While topological features on Solar System bodies — such as craters, mountains, and valleys — are often named after famous or historical individuals, many stars and deep-sky objects are named after the individual(s) who discovered or otherwise studied it.
In cosmology, galaxy filaments are the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of walls of galactic superclusters.These massive, thread-like formations can commonly reach 50 to 80 megaparsecs (160 to 260 megalight-years)—with the largest found to date being the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall at around 3 gigaparsecs (9.8 Gly) in length—and form the boundaries between voids ...
The Human Cell Atlas project, which started in 2016, had as one of its goals to "catalog all cell types (for example, immune cells or brain cells) and sub-types in the human body". [13] By 2018, the Human Cell Atlas description based the project on the assumption that "our characterization of the hundreds of types and subtypes of cells in the ...
2013 – The galaxy Z8 GND 5296 is confirmed by spectroscopy to be one of the most distant galaxies found up to this time. Formed just 700 million years after the Big Bang, expansion of the universe has carried it to its current location, about 13 billion light years away from Earth (30 billion light years comoving distance). [18]
Eukaryotic cells contain organelles including mitochondria, which provide energy for cell functions; chloroplasts, which create sugars by photosynthesis, in plants; and ribosomes, which synthesise proteins. Cells were discovered by Robert Hooke in 1665, who named them after their resemblance to cells inhabited by Christian monks in a monastery.
Many dwarf galaxies may orbit a single larger galaxy; the Milky Way has at least a dozen such satellites, with an estimated 300–500 yet to be discovered. [107] Most of the information we have about dwarf galaxies come from observations of the local group, containing two spiral galaxies, the Milky Way and Andromeda, and many dwarf galaxies.