List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 472

NGC 41 is a spiral galaxy located in constellation Pegasus.

Sidus Ludoviciana is a 8th-magnitude star in the Big Dipper constellation halfway between Mizar and Alcor. It was discovered on 2 December 1722 by Johann Georg Liebknecht who mistook it […]

2011 MD is an Apollo asteroid that passed relatively close to Earth’s surface — at a distance of about 12000 kilometers (7500 mi) roughly the diameter of the Earth — […]

NGC 1404 is an elliptical galaxy in the Southern constellation Fornax. It lies at a distance of 65 million light years from the Milky Way and it’s one of the […]

NGC 1399 a large elliptical galaxy in the Southern constellation Fornax is the central galaxy in the Fornax cluster.

CPD -57 2874 is a class B(e) supergaint in the constellation Vela. It is a rare star as it is hot but has dust which shows forbidden lines and IR […]

(163364) 2002 OD20 is a near-Earth object that is classified as a potentially hazardous asteroid (PHA). It was scheduled to be observed by Goldstone radar in May 2013. It has […]

Melnick 42 is a massive blue supergiant star in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud located in the constellation Dorado. With its bolometric luminosity of ca. 2000000 it’s […]

X Persei is a binary star system located in the constellation Perseus.X Persei A is either an O-type giant or a B-type main sequence star which is orbited by a […]

VHK 83 (Var 83 in the VHK survey) is a luminous blue variable (LBV) in the constellation Triangulum in the Triangulum Galaxy. With its bolometric luminosity of at least 2240000 […]