... Also cataloged as NGC 869 (right) and NGC 884, both clusters are about 7,000 light-years away and contain stars much younger and hotter than the Sun. ...
... The stars in the two galaxies, cataloged as NGC 4038 and NGC 4039 , very rarely collide in the course of the ponderous cataclysm , lasting hundreds of millions of years. ...
... night sky are often known by their New General Catalog designation or NGC number ... NGC 2266 is , for example, the 2,266th item in his New General Catalog of Nebulae ... NGC listing because their location in the sky translates to the smallest Right ...
... The stars in the energetic cluster , cataloged as NGC 2244 , are only a few million years old, while the central cavity in the Rosette Nebula , cataloged as NGC 2237, is about 50 light-years in diameter. ...
... The stars in the energetic cluster, cataloged as NGC 2244 , are only a few million years old, while the central cavity in the Rosette Nebula , cataloged as NGC 2237, is about 50 light-years in diameter. ...
... Explanation: The 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog is perhaps the original spiral nebula - a large galaxy with a well defined spiral structure also cataloged as NGC 5194. ...
... Explanation: The 51st entry in Charles Messier's famous catalog is perhaps the original spiral nebula - a large galaxy with a well defined spiral structure also cataloged as NGC 5194. ...
... A star forming region cataloged as NGC 2264 , the complex jumble of cosmic gas and dust is about 2,700 light-years distant and mixes reddish emission nebulae excited by energetic light from newborn stars with dark interstellar dust clouds. ...