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NGC 1 and NGC 2 as an optical double. NGC 2 is located about 345 million light-years from the Solar System, with a magnitude of +14.2, while the distance to NGC 1 is 210 million light-years. Although visually close in the sky, NGC 1 and NGC 2 are at very different distances; were they stars, they would be referred to as an "optical double" as ...
The following is a list of NGC objects, that is objects listed in the New General Catalogue (NGC). It is one of the largest comprehensive astronomical catalogues for deep sky objects such as star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies. List of NGC objects (1–1000) List of NGC objects (1001–2000) List of NGC objects (2001–3000)
Messier 2 or M2 (also designated NGC 7089) ... Chart showing location of M2. ... Messier 2 is located within our Milky Way galaxy, and is one of the oldest clusters ...
The NGC contains 7,840 objects, including galaxies, star clusters and emission nebulae. Dreyer published two supplements to the NGC in 1895 and 1908, known as the Index Catalogues (abbreviated IC), describing a further 5,386 astronomical objects. Thousands of these objects are best known by their NGC or IC numbers, which remain in widespread use.
NGC 7814 Spiral Galaxy: 49,000 Pegasus: 10.5 C44 NGC 7479: Superman Galaxy: Barred Spiral Galaxy: 106,000 Pegasus: 11 C45 NGC 5248 Spiral Galaxy: 74,000 Boötes: 10.2 C46 NGC 2261: Hubble's Variable Nebula: Nebula: 2.5 Monoceros - C47 NGC 6934 Globular Cluster: 57 Delphinus: 8.9 C48 NGC 2775 Spiral Galaxy: 55,000 Cancer: 10.3 C49 NGC 2237 ...
Most distant (difficult) naked eye object. Closest unbarred spiral galaxy to us and third largest galaxy in the Local Group. 61,100 ly 96 Andromeda XXI [68] dSph [55] 2.802 0.859 −9.9 Local Group: Satellite of Andromeda 97 Tucana Dwarf: dE5 2.87 0.88 [7] −9.16 15.7 [1] Local Group [7] Isolated group member — a 'primordial' galaxy [69] 98 ...
Astronomers theorize that a collision with a smaller companion galaxy near the core of the main galaxy could have led to the unusual spiral structure. [7] NGC 5253, a peculiar irregular galaxy, is located near the border with Hydra and M83, with which it likely had a close gravitational interaction 1–2 billion years ago. This may have sparked ...
It is located 130,000 light-years (40 kpc) [3] from the Andromeda Galaxy's galactic core, and is the brightest [3] (by absolute magnitude) globular cluster in the Local Group, with an absolute visual magnitude of −10.94 and the luminosity of 2 million Suns. [4] It has an apparent magnitude of 13.81 in V band.