“NASA will also no longer use the term ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’ to refer to NGC 4567 and NGC 4568, a pair of spiral galaxies found in the Virgo Galaxy Cluster,” the statement from NASA said. “Moving forward, NASA will use only the official, International Astronomical Union designations in cases where nicknames are inappropriate.”
“Siamese twins” is an antiquated term that references a pair of Siamese-American conjoined twins in the 1800s who regularly appeared in what was known as “freak shows” at the time.”
https://abcnews.go.com/US/nasa-drops-insensitive-celestial-nicknames-effort-address-systemic/story
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