NASANED Lookup Object
Look up an extragalactic astronomical object by name in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED). NED is the authoritative database for extragalactic objects (galaxies, quasars, AGN, galaxy clusters) containing 1 billion+ photometry measurements for 60 million+ objects. Returns the preferred name, coordinates (RA/Dec), object type, redshift with uncertainty, distance estimates, morphology, and all alternative names. Object types: G (galaxy), QSO (quasar), GPair (galaxy pair), GClstr (galaxy c…
Overview
Look up an extragalactic astronomical object by name in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED). NED is the authoritative database for extragalactic objects (galaxies, quasars, AGN, galaxy clusters) containing 1 billion+ photometry measurements for 60 million+ objects. Returns the preferred name, coordinates (RA/Dec), object type, redshift with uncertainty, distance estimates, morphology, and all alternative names. Object types: G (galaxy), QSO (quasar), GPair (galaxy pair), GClstr (galaxy cluster), AGN, RadioS (radio source).
Status
The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.
- Last probed
- 1d ago
- Last success
- 1d ago
- Last latency
- 591ms
Schema
JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.
{
"properties": {
"name": {
"description": "Object name in NED format. Examples: 'NGC 1300', 'M31', 'Andromeda Galaxy', 'Coma Cluster', '3C 273', 'Markarian 421', 'Arp 299', 'NGC 4889'",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"name"
],
"type": "object"
}Examples (1)
Default NASANED Lookup Object call
{
"name": ""
}Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.
Identifiers
- Catalog ID
- tu_NASANED_lookup_object
- Tool name
- NASANED_lookup_object
- Added
- 2026-05-01 00:58Z
- Tags
- tooluniverse