elliptical galaxy

APOD Index - Galaxies: Elliptical Galaxies
Astronomy Picture of the Day. Index - Galaxies: Elliptical Galaxies. APOD: 1995 September 13 - Elliptical Galaxy M87. Explanation: Elliptical galaxy M87 is a type of galaxy that looks much different than our own Milky Way Galaxy. ... own Milky Way Galaxy. The giant elliptical galaxy named NGC 4881 on ...

Galaxies
Click the icon to view galaxies of the Messier catalog. The icon shows M51, the Whirlpool Galaxy. ... They come in a variety of flavors: Spiral, lenticular, elliptical and irregular ... We live in a giant spiral galaxy, the Milky Way Galaxy, of 100,000 light years diameter and ...

Centaurus A, An Elliptical Galaxy
Centaurus A, An Elliptical Galaxy. Centaurus A (or Cen A for short) is a typical elliptical galaxy. Its unusual name comes from radio astronomy; Centaurus A was the first source of radio waves found in the constellation Centaurus.

NOAO Image Gallery: Elliptical Galaxies
NOAO Image Gallery. The astronomical images presented on these pages are provided through the facilities of the National Optical Astronomy Observatory, unless otherwise noted. ... Elliptical galaxies are spheroidal distributions of mostly older stars, usually without much of the ... describes their appearance; an E0 galaxy is almost perfectly circular while an ...

eSky: Elliptical Galaxy
Elliptical Galaxy. E-type Galaxy. The most common type of galaxy, accounting for roughly 80% of those known. Elliptical galaxies show no spiral structures, and can vary in shape from spherical to highly elongated.

APOD: September 13, 1995 - Elliptical Galaxy M87
... Explanation: Elliptical galaxy M87 is a type of galaxy that looks much different than our own Milky Way Galaxy. But even for an elliptical galaxy M87 is peculiar. M87 ...

Guide to Space & Astronomy
... In general, then, an elliptical galaxy is given the label En, where the number n is determined by ... the left is of the elliptical galaxy Messier 59 (shown here courtesy ...

Messier Object 32
... M 32. Elliptical Galaxy M32 (NGC 221), type E2, in Andromeda ... indicate, M32 looks more like a much larger elliptical galaxy. Therefore, it seems possible that M32 was ...

Wikipedia: Elliptical galaxy
Wikipedia Free Encyclopedia's article on 'Elliptical galaxy' ... An elliptical galaxy is a type of galaxy in the Hubble sequence characterized by the following physical ... arp.600pix.jpg The giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4881 (the spherical glow ...

CERN Courier - elliptical galaxy - IOP Publishing - article
CERN Courier, the magazine for particle physicists ... News. elliptical galaxy. Scientists from Princeton University and NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center have identified four elliptical galaxies like this one ...

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