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    Interacting galaxies (colliding galaxies) are galaxies whose gravitational fields result in a disturbance of one another. Major mergers occur between galaxies...
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    The Whirlpool Galaxy, also known as Messier 51a (M51a) or NGC 5194, is an interacting grand-design spiral galaxy with a Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus...
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    galaxies (such as M101 and NGC 6946) are simply asymmetric spiral galaxies, NGC 6365 is an interacting pair of galaxies where one of the two galaxies...
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    The Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038/NGC 4039 or Caldwell 60/Caldwell 61) are a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Corvus. They...
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    51b or M51b) is a dwarf galaxy that is interacting with the Whirlpool Galaxy (also known as M51a or NGC 5194). Both galaxies are located approximately...
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    galaxies – Astronomical objects Interacting galaxy – Galaxies with interacting gravitational fields Hoag's object – Unusual galaxy in the constellation Serpens...
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  • 100 billion galaxies in all of the observable universe. On the order of 100,000 galaxies make up the Local Supercluster, and about 51 galaxies are in the...
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    identified two types of peculiar galaxies: interacting galaxies and active galactic nuclei (AGN). When two galaxies come close to each other, their mutual...
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    NGC 6872 (redirect from Condor Galaxy)
    from Earth. NGC 6872 is interacting with the lenticular galaxy IC 4970, which is less than one twelfth as large. The galaxy has two elongated arms with...
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    (“thermalized”). The resultant galaxy is dominated by stars that orbit the galaxy in a complicated and random interacting network of orbits, which is what...
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    A binary galaxy is a system of two interacting galaxies where their distance is 5-10 times less than the distance of the nearest galaxies of comparable...
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    distances up to 13 billion light-years. Antennae Galaxies Interacting galaxy NGC 7318 List of galaxies "NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database". Results for...
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    occur when two galaxies pass directly through each other and have sufficient relative momentum not to merge. The stars of interacting galaxies usually do...
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    IC 4970 (category Interacting galaxies)
    unbarred lenticular galaxy of type SA0^- pec: in the constellation Pavo. It is 212 million light-years (65 Mpc) from Earth and is interacting with the barred...
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    string of galaxies known as Markarian's Chain. NGC 4435 is a barred lenticular galaxy currently interacting with NGC 4438. Studies of the galaxy by the Spitzer...
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    elliptical galaxy Galaxy merger Orbital decay Tidal stripping Hubble sequence Starburst galaxy Galactic tide Interacting galaxy Satellite galaxies of the...
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    catalogue is an astronomical catalogue of 109 star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies for observation by amateur astronomers. The list was compiled by Patrick...
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    (May 2019). "A diversity of starburst-triggering mechanisms in interacting galaxies and their signatures in CO emission". Astronomy & Astrophysics. 625:...
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    UGC 4653 (category Interacting galaxies)
    is a trio of interacting galaxies located 763 million light-years away from the Solar System in the Lynx constellation. The galaxies are being distorted...
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  • A void galaxy is a galaxy located in a cosmological void. Few galaxies exist in voids; most are located in sheets, walls and filaments that surround voids...
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    1790. It is a severely interacting galaxy with obvious tidal debris and distortions caused by interaction with the companion galaxy NGC 1097A. NGC 1097 is...
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    UGC 4457 (category Interacting galaxies)
    the Milky Way. The galaxy is moving away at a speed of 11,162 kilometers per second. UGC 4457 is interacting with the compact galaxy, PGC 23937. Together...
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    NGC 646 (category Interacting galaxies)
    Interacting galaxy NGC 646 at SIMBAD "Your NED Search Results". ned.ipac.caltech.edu. Retrieved 2024-04-18. "NGC 646 NED02 - Elliptical/Spiral Galaxy...
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    Quasar (category Active galaxy types)
    that quasars occur in the centers of galaxies, and that some host galaxies are strongly interacting or merging galaxies. As with other categories of AGN,...
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    UGC 2812 (category Interacting galaxies)
    Arp 219, are a pair of interacting galaxies located 470 million light-years away in the Eridanus constellation. Both galaxies appeared to be distorted...
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    1954. Another dwarf galaxy found in this constellation is PGC 39058. Draco also features several interacting galaxies and galaxy clusters. One such massive...
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    telescopes can be used to view the fainter galaxies . Near the center there appear the pair of interacting galaxies NGC 4438 and NGC 4435, about 50 million...
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    NGC 5394 (category Interacting galaxies)
    galaxy. One supernova has been observed in NGC 5394: SN 2020aaxs (type Ib, mag. 17). NGC 5394 and NGC 5395 are a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies...
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    The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged...
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    Early Stage of Interacting Galaxies: The NGC 4567/8 Pair". Galaxy Wars: Stellar Populations and Star Formation in Interacting Galaxies. 423: 26. Bibcode:2010ASPC...
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