Light-year and NGC 55

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Difference between Light-year and NGC 55

Light-year vs. NGC 55

The light-year is a unit of length used to express astronomical distances and measures about 9.5 trillion kilometres or 5.9 trillion miles. NGC 55, also occasionally referred to as The Whale Galaxy, is a Magellanic type barred spiral galaxy located about 7 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor.

Similarities between Light-year and NGC 55

Light-year and NGC 55 have 7 things in common (in Unionpedia): Epoch (astronomy), Large Magellanic Cloud, Milky Way, NASA, Orders of magnitude (length), Parsec, Spiral galaxy.

Epoch (astronomy)

In astronomy, an epoch is a moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity, such as the celestial coordinates or elliptical orbital elements of a celestial body, because these are subject to perturbations and vary with time.

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Large Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way.

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Milky Way

The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System.

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NASA

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is an independent agency of the executive branch of the United States federal government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

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Orders of magnitude (length)

The following are examples of orders of magnitude for different lengths.

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Parsec

The parsec (symbol: pc) is a unit of length used to measure large distances to astronomical objects outside the Solar System.

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Spiral galaxy

Spiral galaxies form a class of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae(pp. 124–151) and, as such, form part of the Hubble sequence.

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The list above answers the following questions

What Light-year and NGC 55 have in common
What are the similarities between Light-year and NGC 55

Light-year and NGC 55 Comparison

Light-year has 100 relations, while NGC 55 has 32. As they have in common 7, the Jaccard index is 5.30% = 7 / (100 + 32).

References

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