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We detect an Ha filament emerging from the disc of NGC 4490 to a projected distance of 3 kpc which has counterparts in both the radio continuum and Hi.
Taking The Pulse Of A Supernova – NGC 4490 | Universe Today 2010
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The furthest distance ever stated in the literature is 1.55 kpc or 5600 light years.
Universe Today Guide to the Messier Objects | Universe Today 2010
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The authors of the paper I noted above looked at at bipolar radio jets emitted by the quasar and suggested that one of these jets interacted with a nearby 17 kpc cloud of molecular gas.
Quasar Caught Building Future Home Galaxy | Universe Today 2009
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The goal would be to examine, on a regular monthly basis, all the molecular clouds within about 2 kpc that lie along the galactic plane and Gould' s Belt for faint or previously invisible stars that had brightened up by a magnitude or more.
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It is ashamed this object is so far away ~8-odd kpc. away, and the apparent size of the features is so small.
Astronomers Find Type Ia Supernova Just Waiting to Happen | Universe Today 2009
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The cluster's distance is though to be about 3.2 kpc, as said in the Hubble site.
Countdown to Christmas: Hubble Advent Calendar | Universe Today 2009
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Some of the dust and gas from this galaxy probably contributed material that we see as a ring of stars 30,000 l.y.1 kpc from the nucleus.
Ring of Stars in Centaurus A Uncovered | Universe Today 2009
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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 40 (1954): 541 – 549; “Rotational Properties of 21 Sc Galaxies with a Large Range of Luminosities and Radii, from NGC 4605 (R = 4 kpc) to NGC 2885 (R = 122 kpc),” with W. Kent Ford, Jr., and N. Thonnard.
Vera Cooper Rubin. 2009
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For a sense of scale, the bluish starburst region to the upper left of the nucleus is reported to be 60% the size of the LMC ~3.2 kpc but two times brighter!
New Hubble Release: Dramatic Galaxy Collision | Universe Today 2009
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I am thinking less of quantum cosmology than of something like a distant (kpc) X-Ray source that reliably produces a small fractional crab that (thanks to a detector and some audio gear) produces a lot of “pings” within range of our hearing when the X-Ray source is above our detector.
Quantum Hyperion Sean 2008
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