Caldwell 26, also known as the Silver Needle Galaxy or NGC 4244, is a spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici seen almost exactly edge-on, discovered by William Herschel in 1787. It lies roughly 7.5 to 14 million light-years from Earth and presents an unusually thin, needle-like profile due to a low-surface-brightness disk with only a faint central bulge.
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Constellation CatalogueNew General Catalogue (NGC) 1 Discovery Year In the Other Atlases
In Constellation
Also in Divinity Atlas: the constellation this subject lies in.
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1. Wikipedia (space and spaceflight articles)
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2. Wikidata: Caldwell 26
Wikidata Q736657, class allow-list match (w-wdresolver-0926)View the Source NGC 4244 (Wikipedia)
Caldwell 26, Wikipedia - lead section, catalogue classification
NGC 4244, also known as Caldwell 26, is an edge-on loose spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, and is part of the M94 Group or Canes Venatici I Group, a galaxy group relatively close to the Local Group containing the Milky Way.
NGC 4244, Wikipedia - lead section, constellation
NGC 4244, also known as Caldwell 26, is an edge-on loose spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici, and is part of the M94 Group or Canes Venatici I Group, a galaxy group relatively close to the Local Group containing the Milky Way.
- In Group: Spiral Galaxies, infobox 'type' field: Sc (NED classification, de Vaucouleurs system) filed under Spiral Galaxies
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