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The plane of the outer ring is distorted, which suggests that NGC 4650A is the result of a galaxy collision about a billion years ago.

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NGC 2997 is a loose face-on spiral galaxy of type Sc.
* NGC 6101 is a 14th magnitude globular cluster, located seven degrees north of γ Aps.
Messier 30 is a globular cluster located 1 degree south of the galaxy group NGC 7103.
M30 ( NGC 7099 ) is a centrally-condensed globular cluster of magnitude 7. 5.
Recent observations of the Planetary nebula NGC 6302 shows evidence for carbonates in space, where aqueous alteration similar to that on Earth is unlikely.
The open cluster NGC 4755, better known as the Jewel Box or Kappa Crucis Cluster, has an overall magnitude of 4. 2 — to the naked eye it appears to be a fuzzy star — and is about 7600 light-years from Earth.
Of these, the brightest is Messier 77 ( NGC 1068 ), a 9th magnitude spiral galaxy near Delta Ceti.
NGC 246 ( Caldwell 56 ), also called the Cetus Ring, is a planetary nebula with a magnitude of 8. 0, 1600 light-years from Earth.
NGC 2403 is a galaxy in the M81 group of galaxies, located approximately 12 million light-years from Earth with a redshift of 0. 00043.
NGC 1502 is a magnitude 6. 0 open cluster about 3, 000 light years from Earth.
NGC 1502 is also associated with Kemble's Cascade, an small chain of stars 2. 5 ° long that is parallel to the Milky Way and is pointed towards Cassiopeia.
NGC 1501 is a planetary nebula.
NGC 2655 is a small galaxy.
The dwarf irregular galaxy NGC 1569 is a magnitude 11. 9 starburst galaxy, about 11 million light years away.
ω Centauri ( NGC 5139 ), despite being listed as the constellation's " omega " star, is in fact a naked-eye globular cluster, located at a distance of 17, 000 light-years with a diameter of 150 light-years.
NGC 3766 is an open cluster 6300 light-years from Earth that is visible to the unaided eye.
NGC 5460 is another naked-eye open cluster, 2500 light-years from Earth, that has an overall magnitude of 6 and contains approximately 40 stars.
There is one bright planetary nebula in Centaurus, NGC 3918, also known as the Blue Planetary.
NGC 4622 is a face-on spiral galaxy located 200 million light-years from Earth ( redshift 0. 0146 ).
One of the closest active galaxies to Earth is the Centaurus A galaxy, NGC 5128, at a distance of 11 million light-years ( redshift 0. 00183 ).

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O. K. Sil ' chenko and A. V. Moiseev proposed that the ring was formed partly as the result of a merger event in which a smaller gas-rich dwarf galaxy collided with NGC 7742.
* NGC 6804 shows a small but bright ring
A Hubble Space Telescope image of the central region of NGC 4314, a galaxy with a star-forming nuclear ring.
* NGC 1512, a galaxy with a similar inner ring.
* NGC 1512 – another galaxy with a prominent starburst ring

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NGC 2997, a spiral galaxy, and the Antlia Dwarf Galaxy lie within Antlia's borders.
The constellation also harbors the wide spiral galaxy NGC 6907.
NGC 5128 appears in the optical spectrum as a fairly large elliptical galaxy with a prominent dust lane.
One of the more significant galaxies in Canes Venatici is the Whirlpool Galaxy ( M51, NGC 5194 ) and NGC 5195, a small barred spiral galaxy that is seen face on.
M94, also classified as NGC 4736, is a face-on spiral galaxy 15 million light-years from Earth.
NGC 1097 is a barred spiral galaxy in Fornax, about 60 million light-years from Earth.
NGC 1365 is another barred spiral galaxy located at a distance of 60 million light-years from Earth.
Like NGC 1097, it is also a Seyfert galaxy.
Fornax A is a radio galaxy with extensive radio lobes that corresponds to the optical galaxy NGC 1316, a 9th-magnitude galaxy.
NGC 891, a very thin disk galaxy.
NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 55, 000 light-year s in diameter and approximately 60 million light-years away from Earth.

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The globular cluster 47 Tucanae ( NGC 104 ) is located within its boundaries, though not in the galaxy itself, at a distance of 15, 000 light-years.
NGC 3079 is a starburst spiral galaxy located 52 million light-years from Earth.
NGC 3310 is another starburst spiral galaxy located 50 million light-years from Earth.
NGC 4013 is an edge-on spiral galaxy located 55 million light-years from Earth.
NGC 2670 is an open cluster located in Vela.
The one at 43 μm is much weaker than the one at 60 μm, which means the water ice, is located in the outer parts of the disk at temperatures below 50 K. There is also another broad ice feature between 87 and 90 μm, which is very similar to the one in NGC 6302 ( the Bug or Butterfly nebula in Scorpius ).
Messier 100 ( also known as NGC 4321 ) is an example of a grand design spiral galaxy located within the southern part of constellation Coma Berenices.
S Monocerotis, or 15 Monocerotis, is a bluish white variable star and is located at the center of NGC 2264.
Of the luminous galaxies located in the disk, one third are in the Virgo Cluster, while the remainder are found in the Canes Venatici Cloud and Virgo II Cloud, plus the somewhat insignificant NGC 5643 Group.
It is located at the centre of the open cluster NGC 6087.
The Helix Nebula ( also known as The Helix, NGC 7293, or Caldwell 63 ) is a large planetary nebula ( PN ) located in the constellation Aquarius.
Another giant H II region — NGC 604 is located in M33 spiral galaxy, which is about 817 kpc ( 2. 66 million light years ) away from the Sun.
NGC 5823 is an open cluster located along the constellation's northern border, and contains 80 to 100 stars of 10th magnitude and fainter.
NGC 2442, an intermediate-spiral galaxy, is also located in this constellation, with a distance of 50 million light-years from Earth.
In 2005, a type 1a supernova was discovered in the spiral galaxy NGC 1559, located in the Reticulum constellation.
The Trifid Nebula ( catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514 ) is an H II region located in Sagittarius.
β Andromedae is located northeast of the Great Square of Pegasus and is theoretically visible to all observers north of 54 ° S. The galaxy NGC 404, also known as Mirach's Ghost, is visible seven arc-minutes away.
NGC 55 ( also known as Caldwell 72 ) is a barred irregular galaxy located about 7 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor.

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