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  2. Ansible - Wikipedia

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    Ursula K. Le Guin first used the word ansible in her 1966 novel Rocannon's World. [1] [4] Etymologically, the word was a contraction of answerable, as the device allowed its users to receive answers to their messages in a reasonable amount of time, even over interstellar distances.

  3. Galaxy (computational biology) - Wikipedia

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    Galaxy is open-source software implemented using the Python programming language. It is developed by the Galaxy team [23] at Penn State, Johns Hopkins University, Oregon Health & Science University, and the Galaxy Community. [24] Galaxy is extensible, as new command line tools can be integrated and shared within the Galaxy ToolShed. [25]

  4. Collection (abstract data type) - Wikipedia

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    In computer programming, a collection is an abstract data type that is a grouping of items that can be used in a polymorphic way. Often, the items are of the same data type such as int or string . Sometimes the items derive from a common type; even deriving from the most general type of a programming language such as object or variant .

  5. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Galaxy (aka HIPASS J1131-31) was hidden behind a relatively fast-moving foreground star (TYC 7215-199-1) and became observable when the star moved aside. [citation needed] Galaxy, relatively nearby, is considered one of the most metal-poor ("extremely metal-poor" (XMP)), least chemically enriched, and seemingly primordial, galaxies known. [10] [11]

  6. List of galaxy groups and clusters - Wikipedia

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    One of the galaxies is an ungravitationally bound background object. The other "galaxy" is instead an extension of the interacting system — a tidal stream caused by the merger. The group is, therefore, more properly called HCG 79; the name refers to the visual collection and not the group. HCG 79 lies 190 million light-years away in the ...

  7. Lists of galaxies - Wikipedia

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    A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, dark matter, bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek galaxias, literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System.

  8. Galaxy group - Wikipedia

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    Four of the seven members of galaxy group HCG 16 [1]. A galaxy group [2] or group of galaxies [3] (GrG [4]) is an aggregation of galaxies comprising about 50 or fewer gravitationally bound members, each at least as luminous as the Milky Way (about 10 10 times the luminosity of the Sun); collections of galaxies larger than groups that are first-order clustering are called galaxy clusters. [5]

  9. Abell catalogue - Wikipedia

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    The standard format used to refer to Abell clusters is: Abell X, where X = 1 to 4076.E.g. Abell 1656. Alternative formats include: ABCG 1656; AC 1656; ACO 1656; A 1656, and A1656. Abell himself preferred the latter, but in recent years ACO 1656 has become the preferred format among professional astronomers and is the one recommended by the Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg