NGC
Proper noun
Meaning
Initialism of National Gallery of Canada.
(video games) Initialism of Nintendo GameCube.
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About 40 million years ago, the two galaxies had a close encounter and are now moving farther apart; nevertheless, the smaller IC 2163 will eventually be incorporated into NGC 2207.
Another interacting galaxy pair, albeit in an earlier stage, consists of the galaxies NGC 5953 and NGC 5954.
Among some amateur astronomers, NGC 246 has garnered the nickname "Pac-Man Nebula" because of the arrangement of its central stars and the surrounding star field.sfn History and mythology Cetus dominates this card from Urania's Mirror (1825).
Around 15 light-years in diameter, it is located 3700 light-years away from Earth, citation and has been dated to around 2.2 billion years old. citation NGC 2362 is a small, compact open cluster, 5200 light-years from Earth.
As with go-to telescopes, digital setting circle computers (commercial names include Argo Navis, Sky Commander, and NGC Max) contain databases of tens of thousands of celestial objects and projections of planet positions.
Between 1783 and 1787, she made an independent discovery of M110 (NGC 205), which is the second companion of the Andromeda Galaxy.