List of celestial bodies by galactic coordinate system
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This is a partial list of objects (that have their own article on Wikipedia) and their coordinates using the galactic coordinate system
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1st galactic quadrant
Galactic coordinate system
The galactic coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system which is centered on the Sun and is aligned with the apparent center of the Milky Way galaxy. The "equator" is aligned to the galactic plane...
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1st galactic quadrantGalactic quadrantA galactic quadrant, or quadrant of the galaxy, refers to one of four circular sectors in the division of the Milky Way galaxy.-Quadrants in the galactic coordinate system:...
(0° ≤ ℓ ≤ 90°)
| Name | Description | Longitude (° ℓ) | Latitude (° b) |
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| Lagoon Nebula Lagoon Nebula The Lagoon Nebula is a giant interstellar cloud in the constellation Sagittarius. It is classified as an emission nebula and as an H II region.... |
contains the Hourglass Nebula Hourglass Nebula The Engraved Hourglass Nebula is a young planetary nebula situated in the southern constellation Musca about 8,000 light-years away from Earth. It was discovered by Annie Jump Cannon and Margaret W. Mayall during their work on an extended Henry Draper Catalogue... |
6.09 | -1.29 |
| Trifid Nebula Trifid Nebula The Trifid Nebula is an H II region located in Sagittarius. Its name means 'divided into three lobes'... |
7.00 | -0.20 | |
| Omega Nebula Omega Nebula The Omega Nebula, also known as the Swan Nebula, Checkmark Nebula, Lobster Nebula, and the Horseshoe Nebula is an H II region in the constellation Sagittarius. It was discovered by Philippe Loys de Chéseaux in 1745. Charles Messier catalogued it in 1764... |
15.10 | -0.70 | |
| Eagle Nebula Eagle Nebula The Eagle Nebula is a young open cluster of stars in the constellation Serpens, discovered by Jean-Philippe de Cheseaux in 1745-46. Its name derives from its shape which is resemblant of an eagle... |
16.80 | 0.75 | |
| W50 W50 (nebula) W50 or SNR G039.7-02.0 is a Supernova remnant located in the Aquila constellation, about 18,000 light years away. In its centre lies the micro-quasar SS 433, whose jets are distorting the remnant's shell. Most likely W50 and SS443 are related objects, remnants from a supernova which occurred about... |
a 120,000 solar mass Solar mass The solar mass , , is a standard unit of mass in astronomy, used to indicate the masses of other stars and galaxies... supernova remnant Supernova remnant A supernova remnant is the structure resulting from the explosion of a star in a supernova. The supernova remnant is bounded by an expanding shock wave, and consists of ejected material expanding from the explosion, and the interstellar material it sweeps up and shocks along the way.There are two... , and includes the exotic SS 433 SS 433 SS 433 is one of the most exotic star systems observed. It is an eclipsing X-ray binary system, with the primary most likely a black hole, or possibly a neutron star., pp. 23–24. The spectrum of the secondary companion star suggests that it is a late A-type star... system |
39.70 | -2.24 |
| Wolf–Rayet nebula | surrounds WR 124, a Wolf–Rayet star | 50.20 | 3.30 |
| Tulip Nebula Tulip Nebula The Tulip Nebula, or Sharpless 101 or the Cygnus Star Cloud is an emission nebula located in the constellation Cygnus. It is so named because it appears to resemble the outline of a tulip when imaged photographically. It was catalogued by astronomer Stewart Sharpless in his 1959 catalog of nebulae... |
71.60 | 2.80 | |
| Cygnus Loop Cygnus Loop The Cygnus Loop is a large supernova remnant in the constellation Cygnus, an emission nebula measuring nearly 3° across. Some arcs of the loop, known collectively as the Veil Nebula or Cirrus Nebula, emit in visible light... |
a supernova remnant | 74.10 | -8.30 |
| Crescent Nebula Crescent Nebula The Crescent Nebula is an emission nebula in the constellation Cygnus, about 5000 light years away. It is formed by the fast stellar wind from the Wolf-Rayet star WR 136 colliding with and energizing the slower moving wind ejected by the star when it became a red giant around 400,000 years ago... |
a nebula surrounding WR 136 WR 136 WR 136, a Wolf–Rayet star.-References:* http://jumk.de/astronomie/big-stars/wr-136.shtml* http://www.springerlink.com/content/04205412121836v4/* http://chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2003/ngc6888/* http://www.giga-parsec.de/WRspectra.html... |
75.45 | 2.43 |
| Gamma Cygni Gamma Cygni Gamma Cygni is a star in the constellation Cygnus. It has the traditional name Sadr .... |
located in the constellation Cygnus Cygnus (constellation) Cygnus is a northern constellation lying on the plane of the Milky Way. Its name is the Latinized Hellenic word for swan. One of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, it features a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross... |
78.18 | 1.80 |
2nd galactic quadrant (90° ≤ ℓ ≤ 180°)
| Name | Description | Longitude (° ℓ) | Latitude (° b) |
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| 2 Ursae Minoris 2 Ursae Minoris 2 Ursae Minoris is a 4.24m orange giant star near the northern celestial pole . Despite its Flamsteed designation, the star is actually located in the constellation Cepheus. This is because of changes in constellation borders... |
121.40 | 25.35 | |
| h and Chi Persei double cluster Double Cluster The Double Cluster is the common name for the naked-eye open clusters NGC 884 and NGC 869 , which are close together in the constellation Perseus. NGC 884 and NGC 869 are at distances of 7600 and 6800 light-years away, respectively, so they are also close to one another in space... |
134.63(h) | -3.74(h) | |
| Maffei 2 Maffei 2 Maffei 2 is an intermediate spiral galaxy about 10 million light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. Maffei 2 and Maffei 1 were both discovered by Paolo Maffei in 1968 from their infrared emission. Maffei 2 lies in the Zone of Avoidance and is about 99.5% obscured by the Milky Way's... |
a galaxy | 136.49 | -0.32 |
3rd galactic quadrant (180° ≤ ℓ ≤ 270°)
| Name | Description | Longitude (° ℓ) | Latitude (° b) |
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| Crab Nebula Crab Nebula The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant and pulsar wind nebula in the constellation of Taurus... |
a supernova remnant | 184.60 | -5.80 |
| Rosette Nebula Rosette Nebula The Rosette Nebula is a large, circular H II region located near one end of a giant molecular cloud in the Monoceros region of the Milky Way Galaxy... |
considered one of the most beautiful sights in the Milky Way | 206.30 | -2.11 |
| Gum Nebula Gum Nebula Gum Nebula is an emission nebula that can be found in the southern constellations Vela and Puppis. It lies roughly 400 parsecs from the Earth. Hard to distinguish, it is believed to be the greatly expanded remains of a supernova that took place about a million years ago... |
255.00 | -2.00 |
4th galactic quadrant (270° ≤ ℓ ≤ 360°)
| Name | Description | Longitude (° ℓ) | Latitude (° b) |
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| Carina Nebula | some of the brightest known stars in the Milky Way are found here as well as the Keyhole Nebula | 287.61 | -0.85 |
| Proxima Centauri Proxima Centauri Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star about 4.2 light-years distant in the constellation of Centaurus. It was discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes, the Director of the Union Observatory in South Africa, and is the nearest known star to the Sun, although it is too faint to be seen with the naked eye... |
313.9399 | -01.9271 | |
| Bug Nebula | 349.70 | 0.80 | |
| Cat's Paw Nebula | 351.23 | 0.77 |
See also
- Galactic coordinate systemGalactic coordinate systemThe galactic coordinate system is a celestial coordinate system which is centered on the Sun and is aligned with the apparent center of the Milky Way galaxy. The "equator" is aligned to the galactic plane...
- Galactic quadrantGalactic quadrantA galactic quadrant, or quadrant of the galaxy, refers to one of four circular sectors in the division of the Milky Way galaxy.-Quadrants in the galactic coordinate system:...
- Lists of astronomical objects
External links
- GalaxyMap.org's Galaxy Map and Milky Way Explorer