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Astronomical objects discovered in 1781

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Uranus thumbnail
Uranus
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It is a gaseous cyan-coloured ice giant. Most of the planet is made of water, ammonia, and methane in a supercritical phase of matter, which astronomy calls "ice" or volatiles. The planet's atmosphere has a complex layered cloud structure and has the lowest minimum temperature () of all the Solar System's planets. It has a marked axial tilt of 82.23° with a retrograde rotation period of 17 hours and 14 minutes. This means that in an 84-Earth-year orbital period around the Sun, its poles get around 42 years of continuous sunlight, followed by 42 years
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Sombrero Galaxy
Unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo
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Pinwheel Galaxy
spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
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Messier 87
galaxy in the Virgo Galactic Cluster
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Messier 106
Spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici
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Owl Nebula
planetary nebula in the constellation Ursa Major
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Messier 84
elliptical or lenticular galaxy in the constellation Virgo
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Messier 100
Spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenicies
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Messier 94
Spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici
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Messier 98
galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices
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Messier 90
Spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo
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Messier 95
Barred spiral galaxy in the constellation Leo
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Messier 99
galaxy
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Messier 105
galaxy
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Messier 86
galaxy in the constellation Virgo
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Messier 89
Galaxy
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Messier 103
open cluster in the constellation Cassiopeia
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Messier 96
Galaxy
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Messier 85
elliptical or lenticular galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices
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Messier 80
globular star cluster
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Messier 91
galaxy
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Messier 93
open cluster
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Messier 109
spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
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Messier 88
Galaxy
Messier 108 thumbnail
Messier 108
spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major
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NGC 5195
galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici
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barred spiral galaxy in the constellation of Ursa Major
NGC 5866
lenticular galaxy in the constellation Draco