List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 1988

1060 Magnolia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1925 PA. It is now named after the plant genus Magnolia which was in turn named […]

1059 Mussorgskia is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It was discovered on July 19 1925 and initially received the designation 1925 OA. It is now named after Modest Mussorgsky […]

1058 Grubba (provisional designation: 1925 MA) is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. It is a member of the Augusta family. Grubba was discovered on June 22 1925 by Grigory […]

1057 Wanda is a minor planet orbiting the Sun. Initially it received the designation 1925 QB. Named in the honour of the Polish and Russian writer Wanda Wasilewska. It has […]

15779 Scottroberts is a main belt asteroid. Discovered on July 26 1993 by Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy at Palomar Observatory with the 18 Schmidt Camera it was […]

UGCA 86 is an irregular galaxy within the IC 342/Maffei Group.

NGC 5624 is a spiral galaxy in the Hydra constellation.

NGC 5068 is a face-on barred spiral galaxy in the Virgo constellation. NGC 5068 is located approximately 22 million light-years away and has a diameter that exceeds 45 kly.

NGC 5886 (alternatively named ZWG 221.36) is an +14 magnitude elliptical galaxy in the constellation Boötes. It was originally discovered by William Herschel in 1828 with an 18.7 inch reflector.

1462 Zamenhof is an asteroid in the asteroid belt discovered by the Finnish astronomer and physicist Yrjö Väisälä on February 6 1938. It has a diameter of about 26 km […]