List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2052

HD 142 is a 6th magnitude yellow-white dwarf star approximately 84 light years away in the constellation of Phoenix. A companion star was detected in 1894 making this a binary […]

10515 Old Joe is a main-belt asteroid discovered by Brian G. W. Manning on October 31 1989 from Stakenbridge in the village of Churchill near Kidderminster Worcestershire England. It is […]

The minor planet 1657 Roemera was discovered in 1961 by Paul Wild and named for Elizabeth Roemer an American astronomer.

IC 342 (IC=Index Catalogue)(also known as Caldwell 5) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Camelopardalis. The galaxy is near the galactic equator where dust obscuration makes it a […]

NGC 1559 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Reticulum. It is also a Seyfert galaxy. In 2005 a supernova (SN 2005df) was observed. Two other supernovae discovered in […]

1627 Ivar is a large Mars-crosser asteroid that was discovered in 1929 by Ejnar Hertzsprung at the Union Observatory in Johannesburg South Africa. Although it does not cross Earth’s orbit […]

IC 1296 is a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Lyra. It is a low surface brightness galaxy that lies in line of sight 4′ to the northwest of the […]

NGC 4414 is an unbarred spiral galaxy about 62 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is a flocculent galaxy with short segments of spiral structure but without […]

19367 Pink Floyd is an asteroid that has been named in honour of the English musical group Pink Floyd. It was discovered on December 3 1997. It is in a […]

Leo II (or Leo B) is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy about 690000 light-years away in the constellation Leo. As of October 2008 it is one of 24 known satellite galaxies […]