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Mayall's Object (also classified under 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 Major. It was discovered by American astronomer Nicholas U. Mayall of the Lick Observatory on 13 March 1940, using the Crossley reflector. [4]
Interacting galaxy pair Arp 148 (Mayall's Object) As noted above, these ring galaxies may have formed when a companion galaxy passed through the ring galaxy. The interaction would produce a wave effect that would first draw matter into the center and then cause it to propagate outward in a ring. [16]
2. Galactic collisions- another observed way that ring galaxies can form is through the process of two or more galaxies colliding. ... Mayall's Object: Arp 148, VV ...
Mayall's Object: Ursa Major: This is named after Nicholas Mayall, of the Lick Observatory, who discovered it. [7] [8] [9] Also called VV 32 and Arp 148, this is a very peculiar looking object, and is likely to be not one galaxy, but two galaxies undergoing a collision. Event in images is a spindle shape and a ring shape. Milky Way: Sagittarius ...
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Pages in category "Arp objects" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 216 total. ... Arp 146; Arp 147; Mayall's Object; NGC 7609; Messier ...