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Named after the legendary Armenian astrophysicist Beniamin Y. Markarian (1913 - 1985), who discovered that its members move with a common motion.

He made many other contributions to the field, including his study of a special class of galaxies with ultra-violet excess which are now known as Markarian galaxies. Spectral observations of these galaxies essentially changed our understanding concerning the population of the Universe and the activity of galaxies. 

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Markarian's Chain, Dionysus