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  2. List of astronomical objects named after people - Wikipedia

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    Holmberg 15A is a supergiant elliptical galaxy and the central dominant galaxy of the Abell 85 galaxy cluster in the constellation Cetus. Huchra's Lens is a lensed galaxy. Kinman's Dwarf is a low-metallicity blue compact dwarf galaxy in Aquarius. Komossa's object is a galaxy in which the supermassive black hole disrupted a star.

  3. Dwarf galaxy - Wikipedia

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    A dwarf galaxy is a small galaxy composed of about 1000 up to several billion stars, as compared to the Milky Way's 200–400 billion stars. [1] The Large Magellanic Cloud , which closely orbits the Milky Way and contains over 30 billion stars, [ 2 ] is sometimes classified as a dwarf galaxy; others consider it a full-fledged galaxy.

  4. List of proper names of exoplanets - Wikipedia

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    The IAU's names for exoplanets – and on most occasions their host stars – are chosen by the Executive Committee Working Group (ECWG) on Public Naming of Planets and Planetary Satellites, a group working parallel with the Working Group on Star Names (WGSN). [1] Proper names of stars chosen by the ECWG are explicitly recognised by the WGSN. [1]

  5. Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way galaxy is a member of an association named the Local Group, a relatively small group of galaxies that has a diameter of approximately one megaparsec. The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are the two brightest galaxies within the group; many of the other member galaxies are dwarf companions of these two. [176]

  6. Glossary of astronomy - Wikipedia

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    A-type star In the Harvard spectral classification system, a class of main-sequence star having spectra dominated by Balmer absorption lines of hydrogen. Stars of spectral class A are typically blue-white or white in color, measure between 1.4 and 2.1 times the mass of the Sun, and have surface temperatures of 7,600–10,000 kelvin.

  7. Faint blue galaxy - Wikipedia

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    A faint blue galaxy (FBG) is an inconspicuous, often small galaxy with low surface luminosity.In addition to being dim, they show a remarkable preponderance of sparsely scattered blue stars, but comparatively few red stars, which in most galaxies are by far the most common.

  8. NGC 4622 - Wikipedia

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    The spiral galaxy NGC 4622 lies approximately 111 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Centaurus. NGC 4622 is an example of a galaxy with leading spiral arms . [ 2 ] Each spiral arm winds away from the center of the galaxy and ends at an outermost tip that "points" in a certain direction (away from the arm).

  9. Creative Galaxy - Wikipedia

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    Arty (voiced by Christian Distefano (season 1); Meesha Contreras (seasons 2–3) is a boy alien who explores the Creative Galaxy in his Creative Spark rocket ship. There, he collects ideas and makes a final project out of art to help out. Arty's Mom (voiced by Samantha Bee (seasons 1-2); Helen King (season 3) is Arty's fun-loving mother.