astronomy: types of galaxies
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Types of Galaxies
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• Spiral galaxies are flattened pinwheels in shape. They can have from one to three spiral arms coming from a central core.
Spiral Galaxies
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Great Andromeda
Milky way Galaxy
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• Hubble Photo of Galaxy M100
• The Hubble Space Telescope captured this image of the core of galaxy M100. M100 is a spiral galaxy about 1,500 light-years from Earth.
• NASA/Liaison Agency
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Edwin Hubble
very round
intermediately oval
extremely elongated
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Magellanic Clouds
Small Magellanic Clouds
Large Magellanic Clouds
Irregular Galaxies
More Formless
Bar in its Center
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Large Magellanic Cloud
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Irregular Galaxies
They could show features of several galaxy types, have strong emissions of radio waves, have giant jets of gas spewing out from the nucleus, among other peculiarities.
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Antennae Galaxies
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The Grasshopper
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