Names of galactic objects
Some of the names often carry the adjective "great" or something alike.
| name | alternate name | Messier number | NGC number |
| "Andromeda Galaxy" | M 31 | ||
| "Butterfly Nebula" | Little Dumbbell Nebula, Barbell Nebula or Cork Nebula | M 76 | 650 and 651 |
| "Beehive Cluster" | Praesepe | M 44 | |
| "Blackeye Galaxy" | "Sleeping Beauty Galaxy" | M 64 | |
| "Bode's Galaxy" or "Bode's Nebula" | M 81 | ||
| "Butterfly Cluster" | `Splendors of the Heavens',. M93 is also sometimes called that way | M 6 | |
| "Cetus A" | M 77 | ||
| "Checkmark Nebula" | Omega, Swan, Horseshoe or Lobster Nebula | M 17 | |
| "Cigar Galaxy" | M 82 | ||
| "Coma Pinwheel" | "Virgo Cluster Pinwheel" | M 99 | |
| "Crab Nebula" | M 1 | ||
| "Delle Caustiche" | "Milky Way Patch", "Sagittarius Star Cloud" | M 24 | 6603 (part of that object) |
| "de Mairan's Nebula" | M 43 | ||
| "Dumbbell Nebula" |
|
M 27 | |
| "Dragon Nebula" (only a part of the Lagoon Nebula M 8) |
|
M 8 | |
| "Eagle Nebula" | Star Queen Nebula | M 16 | IC 4703 |
| "Hercules Globular Cluster" | M 13 | ||
| "Horseshoe Nebula" | Omega, Swan, Lobster, or Checkmark Nebula | M 17 | |
| "Hourglass Nebula" (the brightest part of the Lagoon Nebula M 8) |
M 8 | ||
| "Lagoon Nebula" | M 8 | ||
| "Leo Triplet" | M 65, M 66 (part of the triplet) | 3628 (part of the Triplet) | |
| "Orion Nebula" | M 42, M 43 | ||
| "Owl Nebula" | M 97 | ||
| "Pinwheel Galaxy" | Ursa Major | M 101 | |
| "Pleiades" | Subaru or the Seven Sisters | M 45 | |
| "Ptolemy's Cluster" | M 7 | ||
| "Ring Nebula" | M 57 | ||
| satellite galaxies of M 31 | M 32, M 110 | ||
| "Smoking Gun" (only the active center in this galaxy) |
M 87 | ||
| "Sombrero Galaxy" | M 104 | ||
| "Southern Pinwheel Galaxy" | M 83 | ||
| "Spindle Galaxy" | M 102 | NGC 5866 / NGC 3115 is also called that way | |
| "Sunflower galaxy" | M 63 | ||
| "Trapezium Cluster" (cluster of young stars in the Orion Nebula) | M 42 | ||
| "Triangulum Pinwheel Galaxy" | M 33 | ||
| "Trifid Nebula" | M 20 | ||
| "Virgo A" | M 87 | ||
| "Whirlpool Galaxy" | "Question Mark" | M 51 | |
| "Wild Duck Cluster" | M 11 | ||
| "Winnecke 4" (the Double star in Ursa Major) |
"WNC 4" | M 40 |
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