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- proper noun astronomy : A
catalogue ofdeep sky objects compiled in the 1880s by J. L. E. Dreyer using observations mostly from William Herschel. It contains nearly 8,000 objects, known as the NGC objects. Objects in the catalogue are numbered, and the lettersNGC are prepended to these numbers, as in NGC 224 (the Andromeda Galaxy) or NGC 6205 (the globular cluster in Hercules).
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As it is included in the New General Catalogue, this object has been known since at least 1888.
WN.com - Articles related to Greece may trigger forex volatility: Subir Gokarn 2010
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