The NGC 2841 group is a

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about 19.6 million

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s away from

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. It includes the loose triplet NGC 2541, NGC 2500, and

NGC 2552 NGC 2552 is a Magellanic spiral galaxy located some 22 million light years away. It can be found in constellation of Lynx (constellation), Lynx. This is a type of unbarred dwarf galaxy, usually with a single spiral arm. It is inclined by 41° to ...

NGC 2841 NGC 2841 is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Major. It was discovered on 9 March 1788 by German-born astronomer William Herschel. J. L. E. Dreyer, the author of the ''New General Catalogue'', described ...

is the fourth-brightest galaxy in Ursa Major with an apparent magnitude of 9.2. It is 20' southeast of 3 Lyncis and just below the halfway point of an imaginary line between

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and 15 Ursae Majoris.

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