List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2039

Alpha Circini (α Cir α Circini) is a variable star in the faint southern circumpolar constellation of Circinus. At an apparent visual magnitude of 3.19 it is the brightest star […]

NGC 7318 (also known as UGC 12099/UGC 12100 or HCG 92d/b) are a pair of colliding galaxies about 300 million light-years away in the Constellation Pegasus. They are members of […]

The Eyes Galaxies (NGC 4435-NGC 4438 also known as Arp 120) are a pair of galaxies about 52 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. This galaxy takes its name […]

Sher 25 is a blue supergiant star in the constellation Carina located approximately 25000 light years from the Sun in the H II region NGC 3603 of the Milky Way […]

NGC 5548 is a well-studied Type I Seyfert galaxy with a bright active nucleus. This activity is caused by matter flowing onto a 65 million solar mass supermassive black hole […]

NGC 57 is an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Pisces.

10199 Chariklo (/ˈkærɨkloʊ/ KARR-i-kloh or /kəˈrɪkloʊ/ kə-RIK-loh; Ancient Greek: Χαρικλώ; provisional designation: 1997 CU26) is the largest confirmed centaur (minor planet of the outer Solar System). It orbits the Sun […]

79896 Billhaley is a Main Belt asteroid previously designated 1999 BH5 which in February 2006 was renamed in honor of rock and roll pioneer Bill Haley. The new designation commemorated […]

HD 73526 is a yellow dwarf star (G6V) about 323 light-years away in the constellation Vela.

NGC 5408 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. The galaxy was discovered by John Frederick William Herschel in 1834.[citation needed]