List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2227

The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (CMa Dwarf) or Canis Major Overdensity (CMa Overdensity) is a disputed dwarf irregular galaxy in the Local Group located in the same part of the […]

101 Piscium (101 Psc) is a star in the constellation Pisces. The 6.23m blue-white giant (spectral type B9.5 III) is variable in brightness. 101 Piscium a distant star located over […]

Beta Ursae Majoris (Beta UMa β Ursae Majoris β UMa) is a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Major. It has the traditional name Merak. The apparent visual […]

Andromeda I is a dwarf spheroidal galaxy(dSph) about 2.40 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. Andromeda I is part of the Local group of galaxies and a satellite galaxy […]

Alpha Ursae Majoris (Alpha UMa α Ursae Majoris α UMa) is the second-brightest star in the constellation of Ursa Major (despite its Bayer designation of alpha). It has the traditional […]

Denebola (β Leo β Leonis Beta Leonis) is the third brightest star in the zodiac constellation of Leo. It is an A-type main sequence star with 75% more mass than […]

The Antennae Galaxies also known as NGC 4038/NGC 4039 are a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Corvus. They are currently going through a phase of starburst. They were […]

2072 Kosmodemyanskaya (2072 Космодемьянская in Russian) is an asteroid discovered in 1973 by Soviet astronomer Tamara Mikhailovna Smirnova. It is named after Lubov’ Timofeevna Kosmodemyanskaya mother of Soviet heroes Zoya […]

2159 Kukkamäki is an asteroid named after Finnish geodesist Tauno Johannes Kukkamäki (1909–1997).

IM Pegasi is a variable binary star system approximately 329 light-years away in the constellation of Pegasus. With an apparent magnitude of 5.7 it is visible to the naked eye. […]