Stephan's Quintet Comparison Table

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Stephan's Quintet comparison table

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compact group < 10 Galaxy group with a few galaxies separated by a few galaxy diameters. galaxy group

Stephan's Quintet 5 Pegasus A highly disturbed cluster of five peculiar galaxies (NGC 7317, NGC 7318A, NGC 7318B, NGC 7319, NGC 7320) in Pegasus which seem to exhibit gaseous connecting bridges. Four have large redshifts (of the order of 5700-6700 km s^-1), but the fifth member (NGC 7320) has a much smaller redshift (800 km s^-1). Discovered in 1877 by M. E. Stephan. compact group

Subject	has number of galaxie	is part of	has definition	is a kind of	is an instance of
compact group	< 10		Galaxy group with a few galaxies separated by a few galaxy diameters.	galaxy group
Stephan's Quintet	5	Pegasus	A highly disturbed cluster of five peculiar galaxies (NGC 7317, NGC 7318A, NGC 7318B, NGC 7319, NGC 7320) in Pegasus which seem to exhibit gaseous connecting bridges. Four have large redshifts (of the order of 5700-6700 km s^-1), but the fifth member (NGC 7320) has a much smaller redshift (800 km s^-1). Discovered in 1877 by M. E. Stephan.		compact group

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