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The California Nebula (Also known NGC 1499 or Sh2-220) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus.Its name comes from its resemblance to the outline of the US State of California in long exposure photographs.
NGC 6752 (also known as Caldwell 93 and nicknamed the Great Peacock Globular [7]) is a globular cluster in the constellation Pavo. [8] It is the fourth-brightest globular cluster in the sky, after Omega Centauri, 47 Tucanae and Messier 22, respectively. It is best seen from June to October in the Southern Hemisphere. [9]
The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. The NGC contains 7,840 objects, including galaxies , star clusters and emission nebulae .
A panorama of colliding galaxy clusters glimmers in a new image, captured by the combined forces of the two most powerful space observatories ever created. The cosmic phenomenon, called MACS0416 ...
MACS J0025.4-1222 is a galaxy cluster created by the collision of two galaxy clusters, and is part of the MAssive Cluster Survey (MACS). Like the earlier discovered Bullet Cluster, this cluster shows a clear separation between the centroid of the intergalactic gas (of majority of the normal, or baryonic, mass) and the colliding clusters.
Map showing the location of NGC 6067. NGC 6067 is an open cluster in the constellation Norma. It is located to the north of Kappa Normae, with an angular diameter of 12 ′. Visible to the naked eye in dark skies, [4] [5] it is best observed with binoculars or a small telescope, and a 12-inch aperture telescope will reveal about 250 stars.
NGC 1624, also known as Sh2-212 [3] in the Sharpless catalog, is a very young open cluster in the constellation Perseus inside an emission nebula. It was discovered by German-British astronomer William Herschel in 1790. [4] NGC 1624 is about 20,000 ly (6,000 pc) from Earth, and latest estimates give it an age of less than 4 million years. [2]
In the sky, it is located near the yellow naked-eye star, Beta Canum Venaticorum, but also near the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4151 and irregular galaxy NGC 4214. With an apparent V-band magnitude of 10.18, [ 3 ] NGC 4244 lies approximately 4.3 megaparsecs [ 3 ] (14 million light years) [ 6 ] away.