Messier 82

[fivemack]

This is a starburst galaxy in Ursa Major; it's a spiral galaxy, viewed edge-on, with an enormous cloud of dust in front of it

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[twoeleven]

Have you tried SIMBAD? It doesn't have everything, but it has a great deal. The Hipparcos catalogs were intended to be comprehensive to the limits of that mission, but that's objects of 10th magnitude and brighter.