Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
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The Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies is a catalog of peculiar galaxies produced by Halton Arp in 1966. A total of 338 galaxies are presented in the atlas, which was originally published in 1966 by the Calif
The Antennae Galaxies (Arp 244)
Colliding spiral galaxy pair NGC 3808A and NGC 3808B (Arp 87).
NGC 6621/NGC 6622 (Arp 81), a pair of spiral galaxies 100 million years after their colliding.
IC 883 (Arp 193), remnant of two galaxies' merger.
Peculiar galaxy
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A peculiar galaxy is a galaxy of unusual size, shape, or composition. Between five and ten percent of known galaxies are categorized as peculiar. Astronomers have identified two types of peculiar gala
Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies
…The Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies is a catalog of peculiar galaxies produced by Halton Arp in 1966. A total of 338 galaxies are presented in the atlas, which was originally published in 1966 by the California Institute…
ESO 162-17 is an example of a peculiar galaxy which is 40 million light-years away in the constellation Carina.