The designation M stands for Messier objects. I understand the history behind how these were identified and cataloged. But what are NGC objects? Where did NGC come from and how is it applied?

Furthermore, the astronomers identified a population of 833 objects in NGC 346 showing significant mid-infrared excess. These objects are preferentially co-located with regions of diffuse dust and ...

A planetary nebula in Sagittarius, 3000 light-years away, features waves 100 billion kilometres high, caused by supersonic shocks from a hot star's stellar winds. Hubble's image of the Carina Nebula ...

NGC 922 is a peculiar galaxy in the southern constellation of Fornax. This beautiful image was captured by NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. NGC 7049 is a lenticular galaxy that spans about 150,000 light ...

James Webb Space Telescope has shown new views of the universe that has previously remained inaccessible. Located at Lagrange ...

All three stars appear white. A nice northern star group This week’s second object is open cluster NGC 2281 in Auriga. You’ll find this object 0.8 south-southwest of magnitude 5.0 Psi 7 (ψ 7 ...

All in all, the collected data point to the presence of a neutron star that is an accreting object in this system. This is therefore the third super-Eddington neutron star detected in NGC 2403.