List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2012

1998 Titius is an asteroid discovered in 1938 by Alfred Bohrmann at Heidelberg. It is named after the German astronomer Johann Daniel Titius best known for formulating the Titius-Bode law […]

1999 Hirayama is an asteroid discovered by Luboš Kohoutek at Bergedorf in 1973. It is named after Kiyotsugu Hirayama the Japanese astronomer best known for his discovery that many asteroid […]

2000 Herschel is an asteroid discovered on July 29 1960 by Joachim Schubart at Sonneberg Observatory. It is named in honour of the English astronomer of German origin William Herschel […]

58534 Logos (/ˈloʊɡɒs/ LOH-goss or /ˈlɒɡɒs/ LOG-oss; or as in Greek: λόγος) is a small Kuiper-belt object more specifically a cubewano notable for having a comparatively large satellite named Zoe. […]

Arp 220 is the result of a collision between two galaxies which are now in the process of merging. Located 250 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens it is […]

MS 0735.6+7421 is a galaxy cluster located in the constellation Camelopardalis approximately 2.6 billion light-years away. It is notable as the location of one of the largest central galactic black […]

1002 Olbersia is a main-belt asteroid. It was discovered by Vladimir Aleksandrovich Albitzky on August 15 1923. It was named after Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers.

132524 APL (previously known by its provisional designation 2002 JF56) is a small asteroid about 2.3 kilometers across visited by the New Horizons probe which passed it at about 101867 […]

Ceres (minor-planet designation 1 Ceres) is the largest object in the asteroid belt which lies between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It is a ball of rock and ice […]

NGC 2500 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Cancer which was discovered by William Herschel in 1788. Much like the local group in which our own Milky Way […]