List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 1962

HD 69830 b is a Neptune-mass or super-Earth-mass exoplanet orbiting the star HD 69830. It is 10 times more massive than Earth making it the least massive known exoplanet in […]

Minor Planet 4442 is named 4442 Garcia to honor Jerry Garcia frontman of the Grateful Dead. It is an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.

2002 MN is the provisional name given to a 73 meter-sized asteroid that on June 14 2002 missed the Earth by only 75000 miles (120000 km) about one third the […]

NGC 5838 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo.

25399 Vonnegut is an asteroid discovered on November 11 1999 by C. W. Juels at Fountain Hills. The asteroid is named after Kurt Vonnegut. The asteroid was discovered on Vonnegut’s […]

NGC 5705 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo. NGC 5705 is part of a small group of spiral galaxies that also includes NGC 5691 NGC 5713 and NGC […]

NGC 6340 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Draco.

NGC 7673 is a disturbed spiral galaxy located in the constellation Pegasus. The galaxy has recently experienced intense star formation activity and may therefore be referred to as a starburst […]

NGC 6027a is a spiral galaxy that is part of Seyfert’s Sextet a compact group of galaxies which is located in the constellation Serpens. In optical wavelengths it has a […]

NGC 2363 is a star-forming region in the Magellanic galaxy NGC 2366 which is located in the constellation Camelopardalis. It contains a Luminous Blue Variable star which is 6300000 times […]