List of articles in "Celestial Body" category - Page 721

NGC 3550 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major. It was discovered in April 1785 by William Herschel.

NGC 3561 is a pair of interacting galaxies NGC 3561A and NGC 3561B within the galaxy cluster Abell 1185. Its common name is the Guitar and contains a small tidal […]

NGC 5890 is an unbarred lenticular galaxy in the constellation Libra. It was discovered in April 1785 by Ormond Stone.

(303775) 2005 QU182 also written as (303775) 2005 QU182 is a trans-Neptunian object with a bright absolute magnitude of 3.5. Mike Brown lists it as probably a dwarf planet.

FU Orionis is a variable star in the constellation of Orion that in 1937 rose in apparent visual magnitude from 16.5 to 9.6 and has since been around magnitude 9. […]

V4641 Sagittarii (V4641 Sgr) is a variable X-ray binary star system in the constellation Sagittarius. It is the source of one of the fastest superluminal jets in our galaxy.In 1999 […]

TX Piscium (aka 19 Psc) is a variable carbon star in the constellation Pisces. It is amongst the reddest stars known with a significant reddish hue when seen in binoculars.TX […]

NGC 6118 is a grand design spiral galaxy located 83 million light-years away in the constellation Serpens (the Snake). It measures roughly 110000 light-years across; about the same as our […]

OGLE2-TR-L9 is a magnitude 15 star in the constellation Carina at a distance of approximately 2935 light years.

OGLE2-TR-L9b is an extrasolar planet discovered by three undergraduate students from Leiden University Netherlands.The planet is about 4.5 times as massive as Jupiter and is the first discovered planet orbiting […]