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galaxy containing Cepheids comparison table

Subject	has purpose	has apparent dimension	is part of	has catalog	has classification criterion	is an instance of	has apparent magnitude	has synonym	has mass	has image	has definition	has distance	has NED data	has Messier number
Andromeda galaxy	originally to catalog all objects which could be confused with a comet		celestial sphere	Messier catalog	Subdivided according to the openness of the spiral arms as Sa spiral, Sb spiral or Sc spiral.	Messier object		M 31	1010 to 1012 Msun		The largest member of the local group. It is a giant spiral galaxy that lies 2.4 million light-years away.	determined from Cepheid period-luminosity relation
Milky Way			Local Group	galaxy catalog	Subdivided according to the openness of the spiral arms as Sa spiral, Sb spiral or Sc spiral.	hypergalaxy			1010 to 1012 Msun		A softly glowing band of light that bisects the skies of Earth, produced by light from stars and nebulae in the galactic disk.	determined from Cepheid period-luminosity relation
NGC 1326A				galaxy catalog		galaxy containing Cepheids						18.7 ± 1.5 Mpc
NGC 1365				galaxy catalog		galaxy containing Cepheids						18.3 ± 1.7 Mpc
NGC 1425				galaxy catalog		galaxy containing Cepheids						22.2 ± 1.0 Mpc
NGC 3198				galaxy catalog		galaxy containing Cepheids						14.5 ± 1.2 Mpc
NGC 3319				galaxy catalog		galaxy containing Cepheids						14.3 ± 0.9 Mpc
NGC 3627				galaxy catalog		galaxy containing Cepheids						?
NGC 4535				galaxy catalog		galaxy containing Cepheids						16.0 ± 1.9 Mpc
NGC 4548				galaxy catalog		galaxy containing Cepheids						15.9 ± 2.0 Mpc

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