List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 17

NGC 210 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the constellation Cetus. It was discovered on October 3rd 1785 by William Herschel and added to the New General Catalogue.

2010 JL88 is a small Near-Earth object on the lower part of the Sentry Risk Table. It was discovered on May 15 2010 and is known to have an unusually […]

Arp 147 (also known as IC 298) is an interacting pair of ring galaxies. It lies 430 million to 440 million light years away in the constellation Cetus and does […]

Kepler-88 is a Sun-like star with two confirmed planets. In April of 2012 scientists discovered that a Kepler candidate KOI-142.01 (Kepler-88b) exhibited very significant transit timing variations caused by a […]

(8035) 1992 TB is an Apollo asteroid a type of Near-Earth Object. It is also a Venus-crosser and a Mars-crosser although it doesn’t make close approaches to Mars.

AH Scorpii is a red supergiant star located in the constellation Scorpius. One of the largest stars known AH Sco is estimated at 1287-1535 solar radii making it one of […]

(86039) 1999 NC43 provisionally known as 1999 NC43 is a near-Earth asteroid and potentially hazardous object. It was discovered on 14 July 1999 by Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) at […]

P/2013 P5 (PANSTARRS) is an asteroid (or main-belt comet) discovered by the Pan-STARRS telescope on 27 August 2013. Observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope revealed that it has six […]

IRAS 19475+3119 is a protoplanetary nebula in the constellation of Cygnus 15000 light-years away. An observation with the Hubble Space Telescope revealed a quadrupolar structure.The central star was originally 2.5 […]

NGC 6984 is a spiral galaxy located 180 million light years away.It is known for having been the host of two recent supernovae: one in 2012 first known as SNhunt142 […]