List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 30

2010 GB174 is a detached object. It never gets closer than 48.5 AU from the Sun (about the outer edge of the Kuiper belt). Its large eccentricity strongly suggests that […]

(285263) 1998 QE2 is a near-Earth asteroid 2.75 kilometers (1.71 mi) in diameter. It was discovered on August 19 1998 by the Lincoln Near Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program located […]

HXMM01 known more formally as 1HERMES S250 J022016.5−060143 is a starburst galaxy located in the northwestern portion of the constellation Cetus.

PSR J0348+0432 is a neutron star in a binary system with a white dwarf. It was discovered in 2007 with the Green Bank Telescope in a drift-scan survey.In 2013 a […]

HD 20781 c is a hot Neptune with 14 to 17 Earth masses. It is the outermost planet of orbiting its parent star HD 20781 in about 0.3456 astronomical units […]

NGC 4571 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation of Coma Berenices that William Herschel thought it could be the object #91 in Charles Messier’ catalog of deep-sky objects […]

2007 EB26 is one of the closest orbiting objects to the Sun. It has the second-smallest semi-major axis (0.55 AU) of any known object orbiting the Sun after Mercury. It […]

HD 113538 c is an exoplanet approximately 51 light years away from earth in the constellation Centaurus. It orbits its star(HD 113538) once every 1657 days placing it in the […]

NGC 4845 (also known as NGC 4910) is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Virgo 47 million light years away. The galaxy was originally discovered by William Herschel in […]

AT Microscopii is a binary star system located at a distance of 35 ly (11 pc) from the Sun in the constellation of Microscopium. Both members are flare stars meaning […]