BD +20°307 is a close binary star system approximately 300 light-years away in the constellation Aries. The system is surrounded by a dusty ring.The dust that orbits around several hundred […]
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Aquarius Dwarf
The Aquarius Dwarf galaxy is a dwarf galaxy and an irregular galaxy that was first catalogued in 1959 by the DDO survey. Its most distinctive characteristic is that it is […]
AM 0644-741
AM 0644-741 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy and a ring galaxy which is 300 million light-years away in the direction of the southern constellation Volans. The yellowish nucleus was once […]
NGC 7331
NGC 7331 (also known as Caldwell 30) is a spiral galaxy about 40 megalight-years (12 Mpc) away in the constellation Pegasus. It was discovered by William Herschel in 1784. NGC […]
Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal
The Sextans Dwarf Spheroidal is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy that was discovered in 1990 by Mike Irwin M.T. Bridgeland P.S. Bunclark and R.G. McMahon as the 8th satellite of the […]
NGC 6822
NGC 6822 (also known as Barnard’s Galaxy IC 4895 or Caldwell 57) is a barred irregular galaxy approximately 1.6 million light-years away in the constellation Sagittarius. Part of the Local […]
Delta Eridani
Delta Eridani (δ Eri δ Eridani) is a 3.54 magnitude star in the constellation of Eridanus. It is also called Rana. The name Rana means the frog in LatinIn Chinese […]
7166 Kennedy
7166 Kennedy is a main-belt asteroid which was discovered by Edward L. G. Bowell at the Anderson Mesa Station of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff Arizona on 10 October 1985.Initially […]
Ursa Minor Dwarf
The Ursa Minor Dwarf dwarf elliptical galaxy was discovered by A.G. Wilson of the Lowell Observatory in 1954. It is part of the Ursa Minor constellation and a satellite galaxy […]
Tucana Dwarf
The Tucana Dwarf Galaxy is a dwarf galaxy in the constellation Tucana. It was discovered in 1990 by R.J. Lavery of Mount Stromlo Observatory. It is composed of very old […]