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The Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies (or CGCG) was compiled by Fritz Zwicky in 1961–68. It contains 29,418 galaxies and 9,134 galaxy clusters.[1][2]

  1. ^ CDS Catalogues Service. "Zwicky Galaxy Catalog".
  2. ^ "Zwicky Catalogue". Archived from the original on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2016-04-04.

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Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies

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The Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies (or CGCG) was compiled by Fritz Zwicky in 1961–68. It contains 29,418 galaxies and 9,134 galaxy clusters...

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Galaxy cluster

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of the cluster. Galaxy clusters should not be confused with galactic clusters (also known as open clusters), which are star clusters within galaxies,...

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Principal Galaxies Catalogue

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eventually expanded into HyperLEDA, a database of a few million galaxies. Galaxies in the original PGC catalogue are numbered with their original PGC number...

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List of galaxies

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systematic catalogues of galaxies were made in the 1960s, with the Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies listing 29,418 galaxies and galaxy clusters, and...

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List of galaxy groups and clusters

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some galaxy groups and galaxy clusters. Defining the limits of galaxy clusters is imprecise as many clusters are still forming. In particular, clusters close...

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Antennae Galaxies

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The Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038/NGC 4039 or Caldwell 60/Caldwell 61) are a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Corvus. They...

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Mice Galaxies

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Mice Galaxies, are two spiral galaxies in the constellation Coma Berenices. About 290 million light-years distant, they have begun the process of colliding...

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Supercluster

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Abell catalogue of galaxy clusters. He called them "second-order clusters", or clusters of clusters. Superclusters form massive structures of galaxies, called...

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Galaxy

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the Messier catalogue, the NGC (New General Catalogue), the IC (Index Catalogue), the CGCG (Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies), the MCG...

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Elliptical galaxy

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dominant type of galaxy in the universe overall. They are preferentially found close to the centers of galaxy clusters. Elliptical galaxies range in size...

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Whirlpool Galaxy

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Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies. Bibcode:1991rc3..book.....D. Elmegreen, D. M.; Elmegreen, B. G. (1987). "Arm classifications for spiral galaxies". Astrophysical...

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Pinwheel Galaxy

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Third Reference Catalogue of Bright Galaxies. Bibcode:1991rc3..book.....D. NASA Content Administrator, ed. (31 May 2012). "The Pinwheel Galaxy". NASA. Retrieved...

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Uppsala General Catalogue

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magnitude from the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies (CGCG). The catalogue contains descriptions of the galaxies and their surrounding...

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Virgo Cluster

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their home galaxies by interactions with other galaxies. The ICM also contains some globular clusters, possibly stripped off dwarf galaxies, and even at...

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Sombrero Galaxy

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Groups, a series of galaxies and galaxy clusters strung out from the southern edge of the Virgo Supercluster. It has an isophotal diameter of approximately...

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Galaxy group

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luminosity of the Sun); collections of galaxies larger than groups that are first-order clustering are called galaxy clusters. The groups and clusters of galaxies...

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Sculptor Galaxy

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Atlas of Galaxies that the Sculptor Galaxy is "the prototype example of a special subgroup of Sc systems....photographic images of galaxies of the group...

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Radio galaxy

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jets and the external medium, modified by the effects of relativistic beaming. The host galaxies are almost exclusively large elliptical galaxies. Radio-loud...

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Phoenix Cluster

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in the middle of a galaxy cluster, although other galaxies at higher redshifts have a higher starburst rate . Observations by a variety of telescopes including...

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Fritz Zwicky

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(1968), Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies, vol. 6, California Institute of Technology, Bibcode:1968cgcg.bookR....Z Galaxies in the original...

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Abell catalogue

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of rich clusters of galaxies is an all-sky catalog of 4,073 rich galaxy clusters of nominal redshift z ≤ 0.2. This catalog supplements a revision of George...

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Triangulum Galaxy

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member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way. The galaxy is the second-smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group after...

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Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies

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with companion galaxies, although some of the identified companion galaxies may be foreground/background sources or even bright star clusters within the individual...

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Spiral galaxy

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Spiral galaxies form a class of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae and, as such, form part of the Hubble...

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Andromeda Galaxy

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among the galaxies in galaxy groups. The fate of Earth and the Solar System in the event of a collision is currently unknown. Before the galaxies merge,...

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Messier object

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planetary nebulae, open clusters, globular clusters, and galaxies – visible from European latitudes. Furthermore, almost all of the Messier objects are...

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Perseus Cluster

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Perseus cluster (Abell 426) is a cluster of galaxies in the constellation Perseus. It has a recession speed of 5,366 km/s and a diameter of 863′. It...

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Hercules Cluster

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rich in spiral galaxies and shows many interacting galaxies. The cluster is part of the larger Hercules Supercluster, which is itself part of the much larger...

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New General Catalogue

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including galaxies, star clusters and emission nebulae. Dreyer published two supplements to the NGC in 1895 and 1908, known as the Index Catalogues (abbreviated...

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