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17 unusual facts about galaxy


Andromeda VIII

It is a companion galaxy to the Andromeda Galaxy, M31, and evaded detection for so long due to its diffuse nature.

Antares

Antares (α Scorpii, α Sco, Alpha Scorpii) is a red supergiant star in the Milky Way Galaxy and the sixteenth brightest star in the nighttime sky.

Anticenter shell

The anticenter shell or anticenter superbubble is a region near the anticenter of the Milky Way Galaxy that emits 21 cm radiation.

BX442

A recent study of one of the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, known as the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (SagDEG), suggest that SagDEG may have helped generate some the Milky Way's spiral structure when it passed repeatedly through the plane of our galaxy over the past few hundred million years.

CL0024+17

The blue streaks near the center of the image are the smeared images of very distant galaxies that are not part of the cluster.

Fornax Dwarf

This leads to two open questions: Why do dwarf spheroidals allow the formation of globular clusters like Fornax 4 and Terzan 7 (of Sagittarius dwarf) long after globular clusters ceased to form in the main body of the Galactic halo?

IC 10

The apparent distance between IC 10 and the Andromeda Galaxy is about the same as the apparent distance between the Andromeda Galaxy and the Triangulum Galaxy, which suggests that IC 10 may belong to the M31 subgroup.

JKCS 041

JKCS 041 is a group of galaxies with the distinction of being the farthest away group from Earth ever observed, as of 2009.

Joshua David Stone

He formulated a chart he called the "Cosmic Map", in which he, for the first time ever for any ascended master teachings teacher, detailed the structure of the ascended master hierarchy within the Milky Way Galaxy.

Messier marathon

The Messier catalogue was compiled by French astronomer Charles Messier during the late 18th century and consists of 110 relatively bright deep sky objects (galaxies, nebulae, and star clusters).

Mount Hubble

It was named after American astronomer Edwin Powell Hubble of the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Mount Wilson Observatory, 1919–53; in 1923 he furnished the first certain evidence that extragalactic nebulae were situated far outside the boundaries of our own galaxy, in fact were independent stellar systems.

Nebula

The Andromeda Galaxy, for instance, was referred to as the Andromeda Nebula (and spiral galaxies in general as "spiral nebulae") before the true nature of galaxies was confirmed in the early 20th century by Vesto Slipher, Edwin Hubble and others.

Nebulium

Many of these, such as the Andromeda Nebula, had spectra that looked like stellar spectra, and these turned out to be galaxies.

NGC 7049

NGC 7049 is the brightest (BCG) of the Indus triplet of galaxies (NGC 7029, NGC 7041, NGC 7049), and its structure might have arisen from several recent galaxy collisions.

Planetary nebula

He later found that many nebulous objects such as the Andromeda Nebula (as it was then known) had spectra that were quite similar.

The City and the Stars

In Against the Fall of Night it is eventually revealed that the Great Ones were the people of the Empire who had left the Galaxy.

Volans

Like the Cartwheel Galaxy in Sculptor, the unusual shape of this galaxy results from a collision many millions of years ago.


A Wind in the Door

Meg learns that the galaxy is threatened by beings called Echthroi, who seek to erase the entire universe by un-Naming things.

Abell S1077

Abell S1077 is a galaxy cluster located in the constellation Piscis Austrinus.

Andromeda Galaxy

Discovered through a data collected by the ESA's XMM-Newton probe, and subsequently observed by NASA's Swift and Chandra, the Very Large Array, and the Very Long Baseline Array, the microquasar was the first observed within the Andromeda Galaxy and the first outside of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Axion

The Axion Dark Matter Experiment (ADMX) searches for light, weakly interacting axions saturating the dark matter halo of our galaxy.

Dans une galaxie près de chez vous

Dans une galaxie près de chez vous (English: In a galaxy near you) is a Quebec French language television series that aired on Canal Famille (later Vrak.TV) from 1998 to 2001, and a movie of the same name, released in 2004.

Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion

A third edition, with another slight title revision (now known as Don't Panic: Douglas Adams & The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) was published in the UK by Titan Books in June 2002, and contains further additional material, this time by M. J. Simpson (ISBN 1-84023-501-2).

Dongducheon Rock Festival

The line-up included Anthrax (American band), Baekdusan, Crash, Moon Hee Jun, Wiretrap In My Ear, Kim Jong Seo, In Sooni, N.EX.T, Survive, Diablo, Crow, Vassline, Oathean, Galaxy Express, Mad Fret, Kim Jong Seo, Cherry Filter, Schizo, Transfixion, Dr.Core 911, Crying Nut, 404 Not Found, Vanila Unity, Boohwal, Do Won Kyoung, Kang San Ae, Maya (Korean singer), No.1

Escape from Galaxy 3

Don Powell - Oraclon: The evil "King of the Night" who seeks to rule the whole galaxy, and seeks out the escaped Belle Star and Lithan.

Eugene Ballet

Ms. Pimble's work has been performed by Indianapolis Ballet Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Ballet Omaha, Washington Ballet, Nevada Dance Theatre, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Kansas City Ballet, State Ballet of Rhode Island, and Dance Galaxy, among others.

Extragalactic planet

HIP 13044 is a star about 2000 light years away within the Milky Way galaxy which was found to have an exoplanet.

Far-infrared astronomy

The Bolocam Galactic Plane Survey mapped the galaxy for the first time in the far-infrared.

Fir Bolg

In Julian May's Saga of Pliocene Exile, the Tuatha Dé Danann and Fir Bolg are recast as warring aliens from another galaxy inhabiting prehistoric Earth, the "Tanu" and "Firvulag", respectively.

Foundation and Earth

In Foundation's Triumph, the last book in the Second Foundation Trilogy authorized by Asimov's estate, another possible future for the Galaxy is discussed.

Galaxy classification

Galaxy classification is classification by means of and for the discipline of astronomy.

Galaxy Express 999

Matsumoto was inspired to create Galaxy Express 999 by the idea of a steam train running through the stars in the novel Night on the Galactic Railroad by Kenji Miyazawa.

Galaxy Fraulein Yuna

The Japanese title literally translates to "Galaxy Lady Legend Yuna", "Fraulein" refers to the German word "Fräulein" standing for "Miss".

Galaxy High

An 85-page paperback book titled Galaxy High School was published in August 1987 by Bantam-Skylark Books and written by Ann Hodgman.

Galaxy Zoo

The third iteration of the project, launched in April 2010, Galaxy Zoo: Hubble, used Hubble Space Telescope survey data.

Greatest American Dog

Wendy Diamond also approached Galaxy and asked JD how often he bathed Galaxy.

Groot

During his time with the Guardians of the Galaxy Groot took part in all of the team's missions, taking on threats like the Badoon, Blastaar, the Negative Zone forces, The Shi'Ar, The Magus and The Cancerverse.

Gulfstream G200

The Galaxy was based on a new wider fuselage, attached to a strengthened Astra SPX wing with integrated winglets and modified high lift devices, powered by new 5,700 lb (25.3 kN) thrust Pratt & Whitney Canada PW306 turbofans, and with improved Pro Line 4 avionics and all-new interior.

Headend in the Sky

As of 2010, HITS offers 6 standard-definition multiplexes on SES Americom's SES-1, 12 standard-definition multiplexes and 8 HD multiplexes on AMC-18, 1 standard-definition multiplex on AMC-10, and 1 standard definition multiplex on Intelsat's Galaxy 17.

Jesse L. Greenstein

Greenstein did important work in determining the abundances of the elements in stars, and was, with Maarten Schmidt, the first to recognize quasars as compact, very distant sources as bright as a galaxy.

Julianne Dalcanton

She is currently leading the ACS Nearby Galaxy Survey Treasury (ANGST) program on the Hubble Space Telescope.

Katharine McMahon

The Rose of Sebastopol was shortlisted for the Best Read Award at the Galaxy British Book Awards 2008.

Level five

Level-5, independent video game developer and publisher, one of ten largest in Japan; founded in 1998 by Akihiro Hino; high-profile titles True Fantasy Live Online, Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King and Rogue Galaxy

M109

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

Macross Dynamite 7

During that time, Firebomber had held what was to be their largest, and final concert, before Basara Nekki left Macross 7 and the band behind, with his guitar as a constant companion, on a journey around the galaxy leaving behind nothing more than a letter for the band.

Mayall

Mayall's Object, or Arp 148, a peculiar galaxy, or pair of colliding galaxies

Mein Schiff 1

The Mein Schiff, when still named Galaxy, was the setting of BBC television's docu-soap The Cruise, which made Jane McDonald famous.

New Pudsey railway station

The station was featured in a 1969 Monty Python's Flying Circus sketch (Science Fiction Sketch/Man Turns Into Scotsman) in which Harold Potter (Michael Palin) is turned into a Scotsman by creatures from the planet Skyron in the galaxy of Andromeda.

NGC 3738

NGC 3738 is a dwarf galaxy lying in the constellation of Ursa Major, located about 12 million light-years from the Sun, and belongs to the Messier 81 group of galaxies.

NGC 7424

It is called a "grand design" galaxy because of its well defined spiral arms.

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".

Pea galaxy

In July 2009, a paper titled "Galaxy Zoo Green Peas: Discovery of A Class of Compact Extremely Star-Forming Galaxies" (Cardamone et al. 2009) was published in MNRAS.

Rogue planet

They observed 50 million stars in our galaxy using the 1.8 meter MOA-II telescope at New Zealand's Mount John Observatory and the 1.3 meter University of Warsaw telescope at Chile's Las Campanas Observatory.

Samsung Galaxy S III

After inviting reporters in mid-April, Samsung launched the Galaxy S III during the Samsung Mobile Unpacked 2012 event at Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, on 3 May 2012, instead of unveiling their products earlier in the year during either the World Mobile Congress or Consumer Electronics Show.

SDSS J130114+2743

SDSS J130114+2743 is a galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, host galaxy of SN 2005ap.

SOHO China

SOHO China's completed projects and projects currently under construction in Beijing include: SOHO New Town, Jianwai SOHO, SOHO Shangdu - designed by Lab Architecture Studio, Chaowai SOHO, Guanghualu SOHO, Guanghualu SOHO II, Beijing SOHO Residences, ZhongGuanCun SOHO, Sanlitun SOHO, Qianmen Avenue, Chaoyangmen SOHO I, Chaoyangmen SOHO II, and Galaxy SOHO (formerly, Chaoyangmen SOHO III).

The Beckham Experiment

It was released just as Beckham returned to LA Galaxy from a loan spell at the Italian Serie A with AC Milan.

The Swarm

Galaxy of Fear: The Swarm, a book in the Galaxy of Fear series by John Whitman set in the Star Wars galaxy

Ursa Dwarf

Ursa Major II Dwarf, a satellite of the Milky Way Galaxy, discovered in 2006

Vorkosigan Saga

As in Isaac Asimov's earlier Foundation series, humanity has colonized a galaxy in which there are no competing intelligent species.

World Bowl '95

Afterward, the Galaxy increased their lead with a 4-play, 38-yard drive that ended with a 31-yard pass from Paul Justin to Mike Bellamy.

World Bowl XIV

On their next possession, Frankfurt kicker David Kimball kicking a 29-yard field goal, which would give the Galaxy a 12–7 lead going into the final quarter.