• This is a list of NGC objects 1001–2000 from the New General Catalogue (NGC). The astronomical catalogue is composed mainly of star clusters, nebulae...
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    Magellanic Clouds Objects within the Small Magellanic Cloud: NGC 265 NGC 290 NGC 346 NGC 602 "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for Small Magellanic...
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    47 Tucanae (redirect from NGC 104)
    47 Tucanae or 47 Tuc (also designated as NGC 104 and Caldwell 106) is a globular cluster located in the constellation Tucana. It is about 4.45 ± 0.01 kpc...
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    Dorado Group (redirect from NGC 1566 Group)
    2049, NGC 1536, IC 2058, IC 2032, NGC 1602, NGC 1581, IC 2085, NGC 1522, PGC 15149, NGC 1556, NGC 1527, NGC 1494, NGC 1493, PGC 14416, IC 2000, NGC 1483...
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    Messier 87 (redirect from NGC 4486)
    Messier 87 (also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, generally abbreviated to M87) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains...
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    Possible examples include the black holes at the cores of TON 618, NGC 6166, ESO 444-46 and NGC 4889, which are among the most massive black holes known. Some...
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    Yervant (1999). "Hubble Space Telescope Measurements of the Expansion of NGC 6543: Parallax Distance and Nebular Evolution". Astronomical Journal. 118...
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    the perihelion of which is closer than that of Mercury; and the Amor-type 1036 Ganymed. He died in 1960 in Göttingen, West Germany. Awards Foreign membership...
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    (kg) Value Item 1036 1.79×1036 kg The entire Carina complex. 2.4×1036 kg The Gould Belt of stars, including the Sun (1.2×106 M☉) 7–8×1036 kg The supermassive...
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  • black holes up to 21 billion (2.1 × 1010) M☉ have been detected, such as NGC 4889.) Unlike stellar mass black holes, supermassive black holes have comparatively...
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  • languages.) Astronomy – Catalogues: There are 7,840 deep-sky objects in the NGC Catalogue from 1888. Lexicography: 8,674 unique words in the Hebrew Bible...
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    NGC 560 is a lenticular galaxy in the constellation Cetus. It is estimated to be about 250 million light-years from the Milky Way and has a diameter of...
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  • with the upper bound on standard (non-supersymmetry) proton decay at 1.4×1036 years and an overall upper limit maximum for any proton decay (including...
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    light-years=24; where "65.00 × 60.0 (arcmin)" sourced from Revised NGC Data for NGC 1976 distance × sin( diameter_angle ), using distance of 5kpc (15.8...
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    3 Monocerotis (redirect from NGC 2142)
    designations 3 Mon, BD−10°1349, GC 7631, HD 40967, HIP 28574, HR 2128, SAO 151037, CCDM J06018-1036, WDS J06018-1036 Database references SIMBAD data...
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    Some grand unified theories predict a proton lifetime between 1030 and 1036 years. If these theories are not valid, the proton might still decay by complicated...
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  • open cluster in the constellation Cygnus The New General Catalogue object NGC 39, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Andromeda The number of the 39 categories...
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    NGC 4436 is a lenticular or dwarf elliptical galaxy located about 60 million light-years away in the constellation of Virgo. NGC 4436 was discovered by...
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  • in 1940 Jan Oort discovered and wrote about the large non-visible halo of NGC 3115. Early radio astronomy observations, performed by Seth Shostak, later...
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    produce this nebula, the jet must have an estimated average power of 4–14×1036 erg/s, or (9±5)×1029 W. This is more than 1,000 times the power emitted by...
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    the nearest binary brown dwarf". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 413 (3): 1029–1036. arXiv:astro-ph/0309256. doi:10.1051/0004-6361:20034292. S2CID 15407249....
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  • the Sun (kinetic energy + gravitational potential energy) is about 1.14×1036 joules of which only 200 watts (joules per second) is lost through gravitational...
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    pp. 2086–2088. ISBN 978-0-486-23673-5. "The OBEY Survey – NGC 584". "Distance Results for NGC 0001". NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database. Retrieved 2010-05-03...
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    strong absorption as obscured HMXBs. X-ray luminosity (Lx) increases up to 1036 erg·s−1 (1029 watts).[citation needed] The mechanism triggering the different...
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    runaways with HIPPARCOS II. Photometry". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 331: 1022–1036. Bibcode:1998A&A...331.1022M. Retrieved 29 December 2021. Morel, T.; Marchenko...
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    Cygni, near η Cygni. It is the brightest member of the sparse open cluster NGC 6871. WR 133 is one of the brightest Wolf Rayet (WR) stars in the northern...
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    runaways with HIPPARCOS II. Photometry". Astronomy and Astrophysics. 331: 1022–1036. Bibcode:1998A&A...331.1022M. Retrieved 18 December 2021. Van Leeuwen, F...
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  • Elements of 22 Visual Systems", The Astronomical Journal, 117 (2): 1023–1036, Bibcode:1999AJ....117.1023M, doi:10.1086/300748. Jaime, Luisa G.; et al...
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    Binary FL Lyr", Astronomy Reports, 59 (11–12), Cornell University Library: 1036–1052, arXiv:1510.02111, Bibcode:2015ARep...59.1036K, doi:10.1134/S1063772915110050...
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