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NGC 7040, the Glossary

Index NGC 7040

NGC 7040 Is a spiral galaxy located about 260 million light-years away in the constellation of Equuleus.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 10 relations: Constellation, Epoch (astronomy), Equuleus, Light-year, List of NGC objects (7001–7840), New General Catalogue, NGC 7001, Principal Galaxies Catalogue, Spiral galaxy, Uppsala General Catalogue.

  2. Equuleus

Constellation

A constellation is an area on the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars forms a perceived pattern or outline, typically representing an animal, mythological subject, or inanimate object.

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Epoch (astronomy)

In astronomy, an epoch or reference epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity.

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Equuleus

Equuleus is a faint constellation located just north of the celestial equator.

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Light-year

A light-year, alternatively spelled light year (ly or lyr), is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and is equal to exactly 9,460,730,472,580.8 km (Scientific notation: 9.4607304725808 × 1012 km), which is approximately 5.88 trillion mi.

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List of NGC objects (7001–7840)

This is a list of NGC objects 7001–7840 from the New General Catalogue (NGC). NGC 7040 and list of NGC objects (7001–7840) are NGC objects.

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New General Catalogue

The New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Clusters of Stars (abbreviated NGC) is an astronomical catalogue of deep-sky objects compiled by John Louis Emil Dreyer in 1888. NGC 7040 and New General Catalogue are NGC objects.

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NGC 7001

NGC 7001 is an intermediate spiral galaxy located about 300 million light-years away in the constellation Aquarius. NGC 7040 and NGC 7001 are NGC objects and UGC objects.

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Principal Galaxies Catalogue

The Principal Galaxies Catalogue (PGC) is an astronomical catalog published in 1989 that lists B1950 and J2000 equatorial coordinates and cross-identifications for 73,197 galaxies.

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Spiral galaxy

Spiral galaxies form a class of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae (pp. 124–151) and, as such, form part of the Hubble sequence. NGC 7040 and Spiral galaxy are spiral galaxies.

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Uppsala General Catalogue

The Uppsala General Catalogue of Galaxies (UGC) is a catalogue of 12,921 galaxies visible from the northern hemisphere. NGC 7040 and Uppsala General Catalogue are UGC objects.

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See also

Equuleus

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_7040