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  2. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

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    The name of this galaxy is based on a Redshift (z) ... In 1986, a gravitationally lensed galaxy forming a blue arc was found lensed by galaxy cluster CL 2224-02 ...

  3. List of proper names of stars - Wikipedia

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    In 2016, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) organized a Working Group on Star Names (WGSN) [2] to catalog and standardize proper names for stars. The WGSN's first bulletin, dated July 2016, [3] included a table of 125 stars comprising the first two batches of names approved by the WGSN (on 30 June and 20 July 2016) together with names of stars adopted by the IAU Executive Committee ...

  4. 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.

  5. Lists of astronomical objects - Wikipedia

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    List of galaxies; List of largest galaxies; List of galaxies with richest globular cluster systems; List of nearest galaxies; List of galaxies named after people; List of spiral galaxies; List of polar-ring galaxies; List of ring galaxies; List of quasars; Satellite galaxies. List of satellite galaxies of the Milky Way; List of Andromeda's ...

  6. List of nearest galaxies - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  7. Dwarf galaxy - Wikipedia

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    In astronomy, a blue compact dwarf galaxy (BCD galaxy) is a small galaxy which contains large clusters of young, hot, massive stars. These stars, the brightest of which are blue, cause the galaxy itself to appear blue in colour. [15] Most BCD galaxies are also classified as dwarf irregular galaxies or as dwarf lenticular galaxies. Because they ...

  8. List of largest stars - Wikipedia

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    A luminous blue variable in the S Doradus instability strip. HD 37974 ... List of the largest known stars in Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies Star name Solar radii ...

  9. List of quasars - Wikipedia

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    RX J1131-1231's elliptical galaxy RX J1131-1231 is the name of the complex, quasar, host galaxy and lensing galaxy, together. The quasar's host galaxy is also lensed into a Chwolson ring about the lensing galaxy. The four images of the quasar are embedded in the ring image. Cloverleaf: 4 [3]