Stephan's Quintet
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stephan-s-quintet-162-13121982
title:
Stephan's Quintet
text:
Stephan's Quintet is a visual grouping of five galaxies of which four form the first compact galaxy group ever discovered. The group, visible in the constellation Pegasus, was discovered by Édouard Stephan in 1877 at the Marseille Observatory.
The group is the most studied of all the compact galaxy groups. The brightest member of the visual grouping is NGC 7320, which has extensive H II regions, identified as red blobs, where active star formation is occurring. Four of the five galaxies in Steph
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Visual grouping of five galaxies
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephan%27s_Quintet
date created:
2004-01-30T15:23:47Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T23:33:25Z
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