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  2. List of largest galaxies - Wikipedia

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    The Condor Galaxy is a colossal spiral galaxy disturbed by the smaller IC 4970. It is the largest known spiral galaxy with the isophotal diameter of over 717,000 light-years (220 kiloparsecs ). [1] Galaxies are vast collections of stars, planets, nebulae and other objects that are surrounded by an interstellar medium and held together by gravity.

  3. IC 1101 - Wikipedia

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    IC 1101 is a class S0 supergiant ( cD) lenticular galaxy at the center of the Abell 2029 galaxy cluster. It has an isophotal diameter at about 123.65 to 169.61 kiloparsecs (400,000 to 550,000 light-years). It possesses a diffuse core which is the largest known core of any galaxy to date, [ 5] and contains a supermassive black hole, one of the ...

  4. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

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    The largest galaxy in the M81 Group. It harbors a supermassive black hole 70 million times the mass of the Sun. Butterfly Galaxies: Virgo: Looks are similar to a butterfly. Cartwheel Galaxy: Sculptor: Its visual appearance is similar to that of a spoked cartwheel. The largest in the Cartwheel Galaxy group, made up of four spiral galaxies Cigar ...

  5. IC 1011 - Wikipedia

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    IC 1011. IC 1011 is a barred spiral galaxy [ 1] with apparent magnitude of 14.7, [ 3] and with a redshift of z=0.02564 (SIMBAD) [ 1] or 0.025703 (NASA), [ 3] yielding a distance of 100 to 120 megaparsecs. [ 3] Its light has taken 349.5 million years to travel to Earth.

  6. Messier 87 - Wikipedia

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    Messier 87. Virgo A, Virgo X-1, NGC 4486, UGC 7654, PGC 41361, VCC 1316, Arp 152, 3C 274, [5] 3U 1228+12. [9] Messier 87 (also known as Virgo A or NGC 4486, generally abbreviated to M87) is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains several trillion stars. One of the largest and most massive galaxies in the local ...

  7. List of largest stars - Wikipedia

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    Below are lists of the largest stars currently known, ordered by radius and separated into categories by galaxy. The unit of measurement used is the radius of the Sun (approximately 695,700 km; 432,300 mi). [1] The Sun, the orbit of Earth, Jupiter, and Neptune, compared to four stars.

  8. GN-z11 - Wikipedia

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    GN-z11. GN-z11 is a high-redshift galaxy found in the constellation Ursa Major. It is among the farthest known galaxies from Earth ever discovered. [ 5][ 6] The 2015 discovery was published in a 2016 paper headed by Pascal Oesch and Gabriel Brammer (Cosmic Dawn Center). Up until the discovery of JADES-GS-z13-0 in 2022 by the James Webb Space ...

  9. List of most massive stars - Wikipedia

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    A few notable large stars with masses less than 60 M☉ are shown in the table below for the purpose of comparison, ending with the Sun, which is very close, but would otherwise be too small to be included in the list. At present, all the listed stars are naked-eye visible and relatively nearby. Star name. Location.