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Size (left) and distance (right) of a few well-known galaxies put to scale The following is a list of notable galaxies. There are about 51 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000 in the Local Supercluster, and an estimated 100 billion in all of the observable universe. The discovery of the nature of galaxies as distinct from other ...
Hubble image of the elliptical galaxy PGC 6240. [1] The Principal Galaxies Catalogue ( PGC) is an astronomical catalog published in 1989 that lists B1950 and J2000 equatorial coordinates and cross-identifications for 73,197 galaxies. It is based on the Lyon-Meudon Extragalactic Database (LEDA), which was originally started in 1983.
The Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies ( UGC) is a catalogue of 12,921 galaxies visible from the northern hemisphere. It was first published in 1973. [1] Dwarf galaxy UGC 1281. [2] The catalogue includes essentially all galaxies north of declination -02°30' and to a limiting diameter of 1.0 arcminute or to a limiting apparent magnitude of 14.5.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to galaxies: Galaxies – gravitationally bound systems of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter. The word galaxy is derived from the Greek galaxias (γαλαξίας), literally "milky", a reference to the Milky Way. Galaxies range in size from ...
1995 — First detection of small-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background. 1995 — Hubble Deep Field survey of galaxies in field 144 arc seconds across. 1998 — The 2dF Galaxy Redshift Survey maps the large-scale structure in a section of the Universe close to the Milky Way. 1998 — The Hubble Deep Field South is compiled.
The Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies (or CGCG) was compiled by Fritz Zwicky in 1961–68. It contains 29,418 galaxies and 9,134 galaxy clusters. [1] [2]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikiversity; Help ... Media in category "Galaxy images" The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total.
Download as PDF; Printable version; Help ... This is for astronomical catalogues of galaxies (only galaxies, not galaxy clusters, star clusters, nebulae, or stars)