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[[File:Probing the distant past SDSS J1152+3313.tif|thumb|[[Galaxy cluster]] [[SDSS J1152+3313]]. SDSS stands for [[Sloan Digital Sky Survey]], J for [[Julian epoch]], and 1152+3313 for [[right ascension]] and [[declination]] respectively.]]
Millions of galaxies have been catalogued, but [[List of galaxies#Named galaxies|only a few]] have well-established names, such as the [[Andromeda Galaxy]], the [[Magellanic Clouds]], the [[Whirlpool Galaxy]], and the [[Sombrero Galaxy]]. Astronomers work with numbers from certain catalogues, such as the [[Messier catalogue]], the NGC ([[New General Catalogue]]), the IC ([[Index Catalogue]]), the CGCG ([[Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies]]), the MCG ([[Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies]]), the UGC ([[Uppsala General Catalogue]] of Galaxies), and the PGC ([[Catalogue of Principal Galaxies]], also known as LEDA). All the well-known galaxies appear in one or more of these
== Observation history ==
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