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NGC 891 (also known as Caldwell 23) is an edge-on unbarred spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. It was discovered by William Herschel on October […]

NGC 7320 is a spiral galaxy in the Stephan’s Quintet. However it is not an actual member of the galaxy group but a much closer line-of-sight galaxy at a distance […]

NGC 6946 (also known as the Fireworks Galaxy Arp 29 and Caldwell 12) is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 22.5 million light-years away in the constellations Cepheus and Cygnus. It […]

NGC 3184 is a spiral galaxy approximately 40 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. It has two HII regions named NGC 3180 and NGC 3181.NGC 3184 is notable […]

NGC 5195 (also known as Messier 51b or M51b) is a dwarf galaxy that is interacting with the Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as M51a or NGC 5194). Both galaxies are […]

NGC 5078 is a spiral galaxy in the Hydra constellation. It is similar in structure to NGC 5746. NGC 5078 is at an estimated 94 million light-years away from Earth.

NGC 3 is a lenticular galaxy in the Pisces constellation.

NGC 2 is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Pegasus. It lies slightly to the south of NGC 1. It is a faint spiral galaxy of apparent magnitude 14.2.

NGC 1 is a spiral galaxy located 190 million light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. At about 90000 light-years in diameter it is just a little smaller than our galaxy […]

Luyten 726-8 (also known as Gliese 65) is a binary star system that is one of Earth’s nearest neighbors at about 8.7 light years from Earth in the constellation Cetus. […]