List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2040

NGC 5253 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Centaurus. It was discovered by John Frederick William Herschel on 15 March 1787.

NGC 5164 is a galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered by John Frederick William Herschel in 1789.[citation needed]

NGC 5102 is a galaxy in the M83 group of galaxies. It was discovered by John Frederick William Herschel in 1835.

6841 Gottfriedkirch is an asteroid. It is named after the German astronomer Gottfried Kirch (1639-1710). It was originally designated 2034 P-L and was discovered on September 24 1960. It also […]

NGC 1850 is an open cluster in the Dorado constellation. It was discovered by James Dunlop in 1826. It is an unusual cluster of stars because the distribution of its […]

3C 449 is a low-redshift (z = 0.017) Fanaroff and Riley class I radio galaxy. It is thought to contain a highly warped circumnuclear disk surrounding the central active galactic […]

GRB 060218 (and SN 2006aj) was a gamma-ray burst (abbreviated as GRB) with unusual characteristics never seen before. This GRB was detected by the Swift satellite on February 18 2006 […]

NGC 4565 (also known as the Needle Galaxy or Caldwell 38) is an edge-on spiral galaxy about 30 to 50 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices.The 10th magnitude […]

Andromeda X (And 10) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 2.9 million light-years away from the Sun in the constellation Andromeda. Discovered in 2005 And X is a satellite galaxy […]

HD 211415 is a binary star system in the constellation Grus. It has a relatively high proper motion and is located about 44 light years from the Sun.These two stars […]