XSC Gallery

The following jpeg images are derived from the 2MASS Extended Source Catalog and the Large Galaxy Atlas. They represent the broad variety of objects detected and characterized by 2MASS, including galaxies, clusters, planetary nebula, young stellar objects, HII regions, and comets.

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Galaxies

2MASXJ12405519-4058350 NGC 4603 spiral galaxy	2MASXJ01100041-6128047 barred lenticular galaxy	2MASXJ00023301-3616328 faint spiral galaxy	2MASXJ14500148+1447476 faint galaxy
2MASXJ04171652+4713127 ZoA galaxy	2MASXJ16071765-6040492 ZoA galaxy	2MASXJ13272631-3359026 LSB galaxy	2MASXJ19003632+1824325 disk galaxy

Bright Galaxies from the Large Galaxy Atlas

NGC 253 Barred Starburst Galaxy	M63 "Sunflower" Galaxy	NGC 1365 barred spiral galaxy
M83 "Pinwheel" Galaxy	NGC 891 Nuclear Starburst Galaxy	NGC 55 extremely late-type galaxy

Interacting Galaxies

"Taffy" Galaxy Pair

NGC 4568/69 Galaxy Pair

ARP 244 Galaxy Pair "Antennae Galaxy"

Starburst Galaxies

M82 "Cigar" Galaxy

ARP 220 Merger/ULIRG

MRK 463 Merger Starburst + AGN Pair

AGN & Seyfert Galaxies

NGC 1068 (aka M77) amazing Seyfert galaxy

Centaurus A (aka NGC 5128) bright radio galaxy

IRAS 03450+0055 Seyfert 1 galaxy

Clusters

47Tucana Globular Cluster

Tarantula Nebula 30 Doradus Stellar Cluster (LMC)

M13 Hercules Globular Cluster

2MASXJ06142300-6950424 open cluster (LMC)

Planetary Nebulae

2MASXJ20222299+2006162

2MASXJ17292115-2345314 NGC6369

2MASXJ17134463-3706111 NGC6302

YSOs & Nebulae

2MASXJ10241297-5746201	2MASXJ0325363+304528 Perseus YSO with nebular jet/maser activity	2MASXJ0540514+354122 HII nebulosity
2MASXJ09032732-4831131 IRAS source	2MASXJ16342690-1547096	2MASXJ04313407+1808048 L1551 Bipolar Outflow

Comets

2MASXJ14125217-1513210 88P/Howell

2MASXJ0611207+363825 52P/Harrington-Abell

2MASXJ20580791-0959066 Meunier-Dupouy

2MASXJ07493232+8356013 LINEAR 1998 M5

[Last Updated: 2004 Jan 5; by Tom Jarrett]