List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 2272

20000 Varuna is a large classical Kuiper belt object. It previously had the provisional designation 2000 WR106 and has been precovered in plates dating back to 1953. It is probably […]

NGC 4631 (also known as the Whale Galaxy or Caldwell 32) is an edge-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. This galaxy’s slightly distorted wedge shape gives it the […]

Gomez’s Hamburger is believed to be a young star surrounded by a protoplanetary disk. It was initially identified as a planetary nebula (i.e. an old dying star) and its distance […]

Larissa (/ləˈrɪsə/ lə-RISS-ə; Greek: Λάρισα) also known as Neptune VII is the fifth-closest inner satellite of Neptune. It is named after Larissa a lover of Poseidon (Neptune) in Greek mythology […]

IC 10 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Cassiopeia. It was discovered by Lewis Swift in 1887. Nicholas U. Mayall was the first to suggest that the object is […]

The Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy (Sgr dSph) also known as the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (Sgr dE or Sag DEG) is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the Milky Way […]

Beta Andromedae (Beta And β And β Andromedae) is the Bayer designation for a prominent star in the northern constellation of Andromeda. It has the traditional name Mirach which is […]

40 Eridani (also known as Omicron2 Eridani or Keid from the Arabic word qayd (egg) shells) is a triple star system less than 16.5 light years away from Earth. It […]

624 Hektor is the largest Jupiter trojan. It was discovered in 1907 by August Kopff.Hektor is a D-type asteroid dark and reddish in colour. It lies in Jupiter’s leading Lagrangian […]

Ariel is the fourth-largest of the 27 known moons of Uranus. Ariel orbits and rotates in the equatorial plane of Uranus which is almost perpendicular to the orbit of Uranus […]