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  2. Mayall's Object - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. NGC 3184 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 3184, the Little Pinwheel Galaxy, is a spiral galaxy approximately 40 million light-years away [2] in the constellation Ursa Major.Its name comes from its resemblance to the Pinwheel Galaxy.

  4. Pinwheel Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    Dark sky image with some objects around Pinwheel Galaxy (M 101). The quarter in the lower right shows the tail of Ursa Major with the stars Mizar, Alcor and Alkaid.. The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101, M101 or NGC 5457) is a face-on, unbarred, and counterclockwise spiral galaxy located 21 million light-years (6.4 megaparsecs) [5] from Earth in the constellation Ursa Major.

  5. Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Mayall - Wikipedia

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    Mayall II, Mayall III, Mayall IV, Mayall V, and Mayall VI globular clusters in the Andromeda Galaxy; Mayall's Object, or Arp 148, a peculiar galaxy, or pair of colliding galaxies; 2131 Mayall, a minor planet; Nicholas U. Mayall Telescope, telescope at the Kitt Peak National Observatory

  7. List of ring galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Mayall's Object: Arp 148, VV 032, MCG+07-23-019, APG 148 450 Mly collisional ring galaxy NGC 4774 [6] I Zw 045 413 Mly collisional ring galaxy VII Zw 466 [6] VII Zw 466, UGC 07683 637 Mly collisional ring galaxy Arp-Madore 417-391 [7] PGC 14881 670 Mly collisional ring galaxy UGC 4599 91 Mly UGC 6614: PGC 36122 322 Mly giant low surface ...

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  9. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

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    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 ...