NGC 7318
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ngc-7318-175-11494028
title:
NGC 7318
text:
NGC 7318 is a pair of colliding galaxies about 280 million light-years from Earth. They appear in the Constellation Pegasus and are members of Stephan's Quintet. They were discovered on 27 September 1873 by French astronomer Édouard Stephan. The Spitzer Space Telescope revealed the presence of a large intergalactic shock wave, shown by an arc produced by NGC 7318b colliding with the group at ≥ 900 km/sec. As NGC 7318b collides with NGC 7318a, atoms of hydrogen in the cluster's gas are heated by
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation Pegasus
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_7318
date created:
2006-03-07T21:09:35Z
date modified:
2024-09-03T07:57:53Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q9048329","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q9048329"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/NGC_7318.jpg","width":1881,"height":2189}
fields total:
13
integrity:
16