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]