Upon first encountering one, the L-Cluster entry will be added to the Situation Log, requiring the collection of 7 L-Gate Insights. Stars and constellations tend to have more interesting names than galaxies.Some Black Hole systems are home to L-Gates these heavily modified gateways cannot be activated with the Gateway Activation technology. If you didn’t find the names you were looking for in this list, try our other lists of names for other celestial objects. The official catalogs are maintained and organized by the International Astronomical Union, a multinational organization of recognized astronomers and scientists. In modern times, with so many new galaxies being discovered every day, it is no longer practical for new objects or galaxies to receive proper names, so they are mostly named only with alphanumeric designations. Galaxies that receive proper names were generally named by the astronomers who discovered them. It’s located in the Triangulum Constellation Named because it looks similar to the Pinwheel Galaxy Named after the astronomers that co-discovered it Named after its discoverer, Nicholas Mayall Two galaxies with long tails that look like a mouse Named because it’s located in the Sculptor constellation Named after the snakes in the Greek myth of Medusa It looks like a sombrero, but it’s smaller than the Sombrero Galaxy Ring galaxy, named after its discoverer Eric Lindsay It is extremely bright and has lots of colors. Looks like the eye of Sauron, from Lord of the rings. It contains some of the oldest stars we know of. It’s the brightest of the distant galaxies. Named after the constellation of the same name. Named because it’s located in the Centaurus constellation Named after the astronomer who discovered it, Johann Elert Bode It looks like an eye with a dark stripe underneath ![]() It seems to rotate in the opposite direction to what it should according to its shape.Įvil Eye Galaxy, M64, NGC 4826, PGC 44182 It gets its name because it is said to look like a pair of insect antennae. She becomes queen of Greece when she marries Perseus. In mythology, Andromeda is the daughter of the kings of Ethiopia and is said to be more beautiful than the Nereids. This means that from Earth, they can be seen inside the area of the limits of said constellation, it doesn’t mean that the galaxy i really inside the constellation as galaxies are much farther away than any star that can be individually seen from our planet. There are some galaxies that are named after the constellation they are located in. Remember that Earth is part of the Milky Way galaxy. This is why you will see a lot more names of galaxies named after everyday objects instead of mythological animals or characters. Unlike constellations that have had names since the times of ancient civilizations, a lot of these galaxies were discovered in more modern times because they are not visible without the help of telescopes. We have also included some of their other designations and, where possible, the constellation they can be found at if you want to observe them through a telescope. We have compiled a complete list of all the galaxies that have proper names and the meaning of each and are ordered alphabetically. So it’s possible for a galaxy to have multiple names. There are other popular catalogs, like the Messier catalog, that only contains 110 galaxies or the Catalogue of Principal Galaxies that has more than 73,000 galaxies. For example, the designation for the Sombrero Galaxy is NGC 4594. This catalog is ordered from east to west so the galaxies that are “close” to each other as they are viewed from Earth receive numbers that are close to each other. The most popular modern catalog of galaxies is NGC, which is short for New General Catalogue of Nebulae and Star Clusters. The rest only receive a designation based on the catalog you are looking at, their position in the sky, or the order in which they were discovered. Only the most prominent galaxies, or the ones that are closer to our own, receive proper names. It would be a daunting task to assign a name to all of them. How do Galaxies get their names?īy our best estimates, there are more than 125 billion galaxies in the observable universe. Many people look for inspiration in these objects to name newborn baby girls, boys, or even their pets. Galaxies, stars, and planets are famous for having cool names inspired by mythology, fauna, or simply because of their shape.
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