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unusual facts about Spiral galaxy


Aphididae

The forewings of Aphididae alates are dotted with 4 to 6 veins below the darkened spiracles.


Alicia M. Soderberg

Soderberg and her colleagues detected the supernova SN 2008D as it was occurring on January 9, 2008, using data from NASA's Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission X-ray space telescope, from a precursor star in the spiral galaxy NGC 2770, 88 million light years away (27 Mpc).

Chemical Galaxy

Having just read Fred Hoyle's book The Nature of the Universe, he had the idea that Longman's design resembled a spiral galaxy.

IC 2560

IC 2560 is a spiral galaxy lying over 110 million light-years away from Earth in the constellation of Antlia.

Messier 82

Forming a striking pair in small telescopes with nearby spiral M81, M82 is being physically affected by its larger neighbor.

NGC 2770

NGC 2770 is a type SASc spiral galaxy located about 88 million light years away, in the constellation Lynx.


see also

C67

Caldwell 67 (NGC 1097), a barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Fornax

M106

Messier 106, a spiral galaxy about in the constellation Canes Venatici

M109

Messier 109 (M109), a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major

M81

Messier 81, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major, also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy

M91

Messier 91, a barred spiral galaxy about 63 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices

M94

Messier 94, a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici

M96

Messier 96, an intermediate spiral galaxy about 31 million light-years away in the constellation Leo

M98

Messier 98, an intermediate spiral galaxy about 60 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices

M99

Messier 99, an unbarred spiral galaxy approximately 60 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices

NGC 2535

The two galaxies are listed together in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as an example of a spiral galaxy with a high surface brightness companion.

NGC 772

Halton Arp includes NGC 772 in his Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as Arp 78, where it is described as a "Spiral galaxy with a small high-surface brightness companion".

The City of the Saved

The City is a self-contained location existing after the end of the universe, which takes the form of a city the size of a spiral galaxy.