List of galaxies named after people

A small number of galaxies or galaxy groups have been named after individual people. In most cases, the named individual was the person who discovered the object, who first brought attention to it, or who first studied it scientifically.

Many of the brighter galaxies visible from the Northern Hemisphere have Messier numbers, named after Charles Messier. For instance, the Andromeda Galaxy is Messier 31 and the Whirlpool Galaxy is Messier 51. There are a few other comprehensive catalogs that assign the cataloguer's name to galaxies. For instance, Markarian galaxies, named after Benjamin Markarian, are galaxies with excess blue and ultraviolet emission;[1] galaxies in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies are assigned an Arp number after Halton Arp who produced the catalog; etc. Objects in these catalogs are excluded below, except in cases where they carry the name of an additional person.

Named galaxies

Holmberg II is a dwarf irregular galaxy dominated by huge bubbles of glowing gas.[2]

References

  1. ↑ B. E. Markarian (1967), A catalog of Markarian galaxies, Astrofizika 3, 55
  2. ↑ "Galaxy Caught Blowing Bubbles". ESA/Hubble Photo Release. 29 September 2011. Retrieved 29 September 2011.

See also

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