Siamese Twins

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English

The Siamese Twins galaxies as seen in 2015 from The Liverpool Telescope at La Palma, Canary Islands

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Etymology

From being a pair of galaxies that are similar in appearance and appearing conjoined, analogous to a pair of Siamese twins.

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the Siamese Twins

  1. (astronomy) A galaxy pair in Virgo, Virgo Cluster

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NASA has deprecated the name "Siamese Twins" within NASA, due to perceived racist naming in the term "Siamese twins", which is considered to inordinately associate this birth defect with Thailand (“Siam”) and Thai (“Siamese”) people.

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