List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2222

26858 Misterrogers /ˌmɪstər ˈrɒdʒərz/ is a main-belt asteroid named after children’s television host Fred Rogers.

NGC 4881 is an elliptical galaxy about 352 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is a member of the Coma cluster of galaxies. NGC 4881 was discovered […]

Epsilon Cygni (ε Cyg ε Cygni) is a star in the constellation Cygnus. This Bayer designation is from Johann Bayer’s 1603 Uranometria atlas of bright stars. With an apparent visual […]

Gamma Corvi (γ Crv γ Corvi) is the brightest star in the southern constellation of Corvus having an apparent visual magnitude of 2.6. Its traditional name is Gienah which it […]

NGC 1275 (also known as Perseus A or Caldwell 24) is a type 1.5 Seyfert galaxy located around 237 million light-years away in the direction of the constellation Perseus. NGC […]

532 Herculina (/hɜrkjʊˈlaɪnə/ HUR-kew-LY-nə) is a large asteroid with a diameter of around 225 km.

Meissa (Lambda Orionis λ Orionis) is a star in the constellation Orion. Meissa derives from the Arabic Al-Maisan which means The Shining One. This term was used for Gamma Gemini […]

6223 Dahl is an asteroid discovered 3 September 1980 by Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory in České Budějovice Czech Republic. It was named in honor of the Welsh author […]

7232 Nabokov is an asteroid discovered October 20 1985 by Antonín Mrkos at the Kleť Observatory in České Budějovice Czech Republic. It was named in honor of novelist Vladimir Nabokov.

Gliese 229 (also written as Gl 229 or GJ 229) is a red dwarf about 19 light years away in the constellation Lepus. It has 58% of the mass of […]