List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2042

NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 (nicknamed the Siamese Twins or the Butterfly Galaxies) are a set of spiral galaxies about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Virgo. They were […]

NGC 7217 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus.

NGC 5921 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Serpens Caput. One supernova (SN 2001X) was observed in NGC 5921.

NGC 4656/57 is a galaxy located in the constellation Canes Venatici and is sometimes informally called the Hockey Stick Galaxies or the Crowbar Galaxy. The galaxy is a member of […]

(84522) 2002 TC302 is a red 2:5 resonant trans-Neptunian object discovered on October 9 2002 by Mike Brown’s team at the Palomar Observatory.

NGC 1309 is a spiral galaxy located approximately 120 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It is about 75000 light-years across; about 3/4s the width of our own galaxy […]

NGC 2207 and IC 2163 are a pair of colliding spiral galaxies about 80 million light-years away in the constellation Canis Major. Both galaxies were discovered by John Herschel in […]

9793 Torvalds is an asteroid discovered on January 16 1996 by Spacewatch.The asteroid is named after Linus Torvalds a Finnish-American software engineer best known for initiating the development of the […]

(48639) 1995 TL8 (also written (48639) 1995 TL8) is a classical Kuiper belt object possessing a relatively large satellite.The assumed diameter of 352 km is derived from an albedo guess […]

1993 RO is a plutino. It was the first plutino discovered after Pluto itself with 1993 RP and (15788) 1993 SB a day and two days later respectively. The discovery […]