Sept 2026 Release Highlights
Database Contents
For a snapshot of NED's holdings at the time of this release, please see current holdings.
References and New Data
220,722 sources from 1,065 references including:
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9,751 Green Pea sources from Highly Efficient Identification of Extreme Emission-line Galaxies in the Local Universe: >8000 New Green Pea Candidates at 0.12 < z < 0.36(Samonski, H., et al.,2026ApJS..282...14S)
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6,653 galaxies with redshifts from Bar evolution in edge-on galaxies: A demographic study of boxy/peanut bulges (Samanta, A. A.. et al.,2026A&A...706A..89S)
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4,612 QSOs and galaxies from A New Way to Discover Strong Gravitational Lenses: Pairwise Spectroscopic Search from DESI DR1 (Hsu, Y.-M., et al., 2026ApJS..282...41H)
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2,497 QSOs with spectroscopic redshifts from Galactic-scale Quasar Pairs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey and Gaia DR3 (Jiang, Y., et al.,2026ApJ...998...80J)
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1,941 galaxies, gravitational lenses, and spectroscopic redshifts from Gravitational Lenses in UNIONS and Euclid (GLUE). I. A Search for Strong Gravitational Lenses in UNIONS with Subaru, CFHT, and Pan-STARRS Data (Storfer, C. J., et al.,2026ApJ...999....1S)
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91,507 galaxies and spectroscopic redshifts from The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). Full spectroscopic data and auxiliary information release (PDR-2) (Scodeggio, M., et al., 2018A&A...609A..84S)
Cross-IDs and New Objects
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157,258 sources from the literature cross-matched with NED objects.
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63,464 new NED objects (including galaxies, quasars, etc.)
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820 of the ingested sources are Supernovae from the Transient Name Server through August 2026.
Redshifts
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181,253 additional redshifts
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89,119 more objects with redshifts
For highlights in previous releases, please see Archived Release Notes.
Last Change: 2026-09-21
