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ASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database data for Hoag's object]
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'''Hoag's object''' is a highly unusual [[ring galaxy]] which appears to have a yellow core and a disconnected outer ring. Even more remarkably, another almost identical smaller object can be seen through the ring.
'''Hoag's object''' is a highly unusual [[ring galaxy]] which appears to have a yellow core and a disconnected outer ring. Even more remarkably, another almost identical smaller object can be seen through the ring.
References:  Hoag, A. A. (1950), ''AJ'', '''55''', 170


See also: [[polar-ring galaxy]], [[NGC 4650A]], [[Cartwheel Galaxy]]
See also: [[polar-ring galaxy]], [[NGC 4650A]], [[Cartwheel Galaxy]]
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* http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Rings/Rings17_2.html
* http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/level5/Rings/Rings17_2.html
* http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2002/21/index.html
* http://oposite.stsci.edu/pubinfo/PR/2002/21/index.html
* [http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/nph-objsearch?objname=hoag%27s+object&extend=yes&out_csys=Equatorial&out_equinox=J2000.0&obj_sort=RA+or+Longitude&of=pre_text&zv_breaker=30000.0&list_limit=5&img_stamp=YES NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database data for Hoag's object]

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Hoag's object is a highly unusual ring galaxy which appears to have a yellow core and a disconnected outer ring. Even more remarkably, another almost identical smaller object can be seen through the ring.

References: Hoag, A. A. (1950), AJ, 55, 170

See also: polar-ring galaxy, NGC 4650A, Cartwheel Galaxy

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