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  2. NGC 3800 - Wikipedia

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    Halton Arp describes these as an example of galaxies by presenting a bridge of matter between them and having a high surface gloss. The luminosity class of NGC 3800 is II and it has a broad HI [1] line. To date, four non-redshift measurements give a distance of 42.125 ± 1.162 Mpc (~137 million ly), [3] which is well outside the Hubble distance ...

  3. 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).

  4. List of unsolved problems in astronomy - Wikipedia

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    A sample of 229 nearby "thick" disk stars has been used to investigate the existence of an age-metallicity relation in the Galactic thick disk and indicates that there is an age-metallicity relation present in the thick disk. [13] [14] Stellar ages from asteroseismology confirm the lack of any strong age-metallicity relation in the Galactic ...

  5. Spiral galaxy - Wikipedia

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    An example of a spiral galaxy, Messier 77 (also known as NGC 1068) Spiral galaxies form a class of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae [1] and, as such, form part of the Hubble sequence.

  6. List of puzzle topics - Wikipedia

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    Computer puzzle game; Cross Sums; Crossword puzzle; Cryptic crossword; Cryptogram; Maze. Back from the klondike; Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Mechanical puzzle. Ball-in-a-maze puzzle; Burr puzzle; Word puzzle. Acrostic; Daughter in the box; Disentanglement puzzle; Edge-matching puzzle; Egg of Columbus; Eight queens puzzle; Einstein's Puzzle; Eternity ...

  7. List of spiral galaxies - Wikipedia

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    A spiral galaxy is a type of galaxy characterized by a central bulge of old Population II stars surrounded by a rotating disc of younger Population I stars. A spiral galaxy maintains its spiral arms due to density wave theory.

  8. Astronomical object - Wikipedia

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    Examples of astronomical objects include planetary systems, star clusters, nebulae, and galaxies, while asteroids, moons, planets, and stars are astronomical bodies. A comet may be identified as both a body and an object: It is a body when referring to the frozen nucleus of ice and dust, and an object when describing the entire comet with its ...

  9. Galaxy filament - Wikipedia

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    In cosmology, galaxy filaments are the largest known structures in the universe, consisting of walls of galactic superclusters.These massive, thread-like formations can commonly reach 50 to 80 megaparsecs (160 to 260 megalight-years)—with the largest found to date being the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall at around 3 gigaparsecs (9.8 Gly) in length—and form the boundaries between voids ...