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Pro Data - Galaxies

Abell 3574

Following an ancient galaxy-galaxy collision 200 million ly from Earth, debris from a gas-rich galaxy, NGC 5291, was flung far into intergalactic space. The sharp, ground-based telescopic image looks toward the galaxy cluster Abell 3574 in the constellation Centaurus. Stretched along the 100,000 ly long tidal tails, are clumps resembling dwarf galaxies, but lacking old stars, apparently dominated by young stars and active star forming regions. Found to be unusually rich in elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, the dwarf galaxies were likely born in intergalactic space, recycling the enriched debris from NGC 5291 itself. [Text source: APOD]

Abell S0636

The Antlia Cluster is a cluster of galaxies located in the Hydra–Centaurus Supercluster. Abell S0636 is the third-nearest to the Local Group after the Virgo Cluster and Fornax Cluster. Antlia's distance from Earth is 40.5 megaparsecs to 40.9 Mpc. The cluster is dominated by two massive elliptical galaxies, NGC 3268 and NGC 3258, and contains a total of about 234 galaxies. It is very dense compared to other clusters such as Virgo and Fornax, thus containing early-type galaxies and a larger portion of dwarf ellipticals. [Text source: Wikipedia]

IC5152

IC 5152 is an irregular galaxy 5.8 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Indus. It was discovered by DeLisle Stewart in 1908. It is an open question as to whether it is an outlying member of the Local Group. It is one of the easiest galaxies to resolve into stars, but there is a bright (magnitude 7.7) foreground star (HD 209142) right in front of it that makes deep observations difficult. [Text source: Wikipedia]

IC5250

IC 5250 (A and B) are located 175 million light years away in the constellation of Tucana.
The galaxies are classified as S0 (S0 is defined as arms so tight they are not visually separable) and are merging lenticular galaxies.
Were there an updated ARP catalog they would likely be considered peculiar.

NGC1269

NGC 1291, also known as NGC 1269, is a ring galaxy with an unusual inner bar and outer ring structure located about 33 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus. It was discovered by James Dunlop in 1826 and subsequently entered into the New General Catalogue as NGC 1291 by Johan Ludvig Emil Dreyer. John Herschel then observed the same object in 1836 and entered it into the catalog as NGC 1269 without realizing that it was a duplicate. This galaxy was cited as an example of a "transitional galaxy" by NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer team in 2007. [Text source: Wikipedia]

NGC1302/ESO 481-18

NGC1302 (at top-right in the image) is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 70 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Fornax. It's characterized by its distinctive shape, with a central bar-like structure composed of stars and dust lanes, surrounded by spiral arms that extend outward from the center. The tiny galaxy in the bottom-left side of the image is ESO 481-18 (PG12309) with an apparent size of 2.82' · 0.92'.

NGC1313

NGC 1313 is a barred spiral galaxy located approximately 14 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation Reticulum. The galaxy is also known as the "Topsy Turvy Galaxy" due to its peculiar appearance. NGC 1313 has a distinctive structure with a prominent central bar that extends across its nucleus. The spiral arms are filled with young, hot stars, and regions of active star formation can be observed throughout the galaxy. One notable feature of NGC 1313 is its high rate of supernova occurrences.

NGC1398

This image captures the spiral galaxy NGC 1398, which lies roughly 65 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Fornax. NGC 1398 is a barred spiral galaxy, and both its bright central bar and delicate spiral arms are clearly visible in this image, with the galaxy itself seemingly adrift and alone in a field of stars. Upon closer inspection, however, the sky around NGC 1398 is teeming with the smudges and whirls of distant galaxies. [Text source: NOIRLab]

NGC1433

This view shows a nearby spiral galaxy known as NGC 1433, a type of very active galaxy known as a Seyfert galaxy. They have very bright, luminous centers that are comparable in brightness to that of the entire Milky Way. In Seyfert galaxies, ultraviolet light is thought to emanate from the accretion discs around their central black holes. Studying these galaxies in UV light is incredibly useful to study how gas behaves near a black hole. [Text source: NASA]

NGC1512

The interacting galaxy pair NGC 1512 and NGC 1510 take center stage in this image from the Dark Energy Camera, a state-of-the art wide-field imager on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, a Program of NSF’s NOIRLab. NGC 1512 has been in the process of merging with its smaller galactic neighbor for 400 million years, and this drawn-out interaction has ignited waves of star formation and warped both galaxies. [Text source: NOIRLab]

NGC1532

Located over 50 million light years away, the large, distorted spiral NGC 1532 is seen locked in a gravitational struggle with dwarf galaxy NGC 1531 (right of center), a struggle the smaller galaxy will eventually lose. Seen edge-on, spiral NGC 1532 spans about 100,000 light-years. Nicely detailed in this sharp image, the NGC 1532/1531 pair is thought to be similar to the well-studied system of face-on spiral and small companion known as M51. [Text source: APOD]

NGC1566

NGC 1566 lies about 60 million light-years away in the southern constellation Dorado. A gorgeous grand design spiral, this galaxy's two graceful spiral arms span over 100,000 light-years, traced by bright blue star clusters, pinkish starforming regions, and swirling cosmic dust lanes. It likely houses a central supermassive black hole wreaking havoc on surrounding stars, gas, and dust. In this sharp southern galaxy portrait, the spiky stars lie well within the Milky Way. [Text source: APOD]

NGC1808

NGC 1808 is a barred spiral galaxy located in the southern constellation of Columba, about two degrees to the south and east of Gamma Caeli.
The core region contains a suspected weak active galactic nucleus plus a circumnuclear ring containing star clusters and supernova remnants at a distance of ~280 pc from the center. These form a ring of peculiar "hot spots".
The type Ia supernova SN 1993af was discovered in November 1993 at 220″ east and 94″ north of the galactic nucleus. [Text source: Wikipedia]

NGC3109

NGC 3109 is a small barred Magellanic type spiral or irregular galaxy around 4.34 Mly away in the direction of the constellation of Hydra. This puts it at the very outskirts of the Local Group. It is distant enough from the largest members of the Local Group that it has not been tidally influenced by them. NGC 3109 is believed to be tidally interacting with the dwarf elliptical galaxy Antlia Dwarf. NGC 3109 is classified as a Magellanic type irregular galaxy, but it may in fact be a small spiral galaxy. If it is a spiral galaxy, it would be the smallest in the Local Group. [Text source: Wikipedia]

NGC3981

NGC 3981 is a spiral galaxy located in the constellation Crater, approximately 65 million light-years away from Earth. It is classified as a Seyfert galaxy, which means it has an extremely bright and active nucleus powered by a supermassive black hole. The galaxy has a bright, compact nucleus with two main spiral arms that extend outwards. The arms are not well-defined and appear to be somewhat irregular in shape.
NGC 3981 is a member of the NGC 4038 Group which is part of the Virgo Supercluster.

NGC488

NGC 488 is a face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Pisces. It is at a distance of about 90Mly away from Earth.Its diameter is estimated to be 171.000 ly. The galaxy has a large central bulge, and is considered a prototype galaxy with multiple spiral arms. Its arms are tightly wound. Star forming activity has been traced within the arms. The nucleus of NGC 488 has been found to be chemically decoupled, being twice as metal rich as the central bulge of the galaxy. NGC 488, with the exception of its smaller companions, that form NGC 488 group, is an isolated galaxy. [Text source: Wikipedia]

NGC5101/NGC5078

NGC 5101 (left one) is classified as a Seyfert galaxy, which means it has a bright, active nucleus powered by a supermassive black hole. This black hole is estimated to have a mass of about 100 million times that of the sun. NGC 5078, on the other hand at the right side, is not known to be an active galaxy, but it has a very high star formation rate. This means that it is currently forming many new stars at a high rate, which can be seen as bright blue regions in images of the galaxy.

NGC5364/NGC5363

NGC 5364 is a grand design spiral galaxy located 54.5Mly away in the constellation Virgo. It is inclined to the line of sight from the Earth at an angle of 47° along a position angle of 25°. It is a member of the NGC 5364 Group of galaxies, itself one of the Virgo III Groups strung out to the east of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies. NGC 5363 is a lenticular galaxy located in the constellation Virgo. It is located at a distance of circa 65Mly from Earth, which, given its apparent dimensions, means that NGC 5363 is about 100,000 light years across. [Text source: Wikipedia]

NGC5792

NGC 5792 is a barred spiral galaxy about 70 million light-years away in the constellation Libra. There is a magnitude 9.6 star on the northwestern edge of the galaxy. It was discovered on April 11, 1787, by the astronomer William Herschel. It is a member of the Virgo III Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out to the east of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies. [Text source: Wikipedia]

NGC6744 and IFN

NGC 6744 (also known as Caldwell 101) is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 30 million light-years away in the constellation Pavo (Peacock). It is considered as a Milky Way mimic in the immediate vicinity, displaying flocculent (fluffy) arms and an elongated core. It also has at least one distorted companion galaxy (NGC 6744A) superficially similar to one of the Magellanic Clouds. It was discovered from Parramatta in Australia by Scottish astronomer James Dunlop on 30 June 1826. [Text source: Wikipedia]

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