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  2. Category:Galaxy images - Wikipedia

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    Media in category "Galaxy images" The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total. Antennae galaxies xl.jpg 3,915 × 3,885; 14.64 MB.

  3. List of galaxies - Wikipedia

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    Named after its discoverer, Eric Lindsay, his professor Harlow Shapley, and its nature as a ring galaxy . The ring is the result of collision with another galaxy. Little Sombrero Galaxy. Pegasus. Named after its similarity to the Sombrero Galaxy . Malin 1. Coma Berenices. Discovered and named by David Malin .

  4. Galaxy cluster - Wikipedia

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    A galaxy cluster, or a cluster of galaxies, is a structure that consists of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of galaxiesthat are bound together by gravity,[1]with typical masses ranging from 1014to 1015solar masses. They are the second-largest known gravitationally boundstructures in the universeafter some superclusters(of which only one ...

  5. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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    The Milky Way is approximately 890 billion to 1.54 trillion times the mass of the Sun in total (8.9 × 10 11 to 1.54 × 10 12 solar masses), [ 7][ 8][ 9] although stars and planets make up only a small part of this. Estimates of the mass of the Milky Way vary, depending upon the method and data used.

  6. Hubble sequence - Wikipedia

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    The Spindle Galaxy (NGC 5866), a lenticular galaxy with a prominent dust lane in the constellation of Draco See also: Lenticular galaxy At the centre of the Hubble tuning fork, where the two spiral-galaxy branches and the elliptical branch join, lies an intermediate class of galaxies known as lenticulars and given the symbol S0.

  7. Stephan's Quintet - Wikipedia

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    HCG 92, Arp 319, VV 288, [1] SQ [2] Stephan's Quintet is a visual grouping of five galaxies of which four form the first compact galaxy group ever discovered. [2] The group, visible in the constellation Pegasus, was discovered by Édouard Stephan in 1877 at the Marseille Observatory. [3] The group is the most studied of all the compact galaxy ...

  8. NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 - Wikipedia

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    NGC 4567 and NGC 4568 (nicknamed the Butterfly Galaxies[ 4] or Siamese Twins[ NB 1][ 5]) are a set of unbarred spiral galaxies about 60 million light-years away [ 1] in the constellation Virgo. They were both discovered by William Herschel in 1784. They are part of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. These galaxies are in the process of colliding ...

  9. Small Magellanic Cloud - Wikipedia

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    Small Magellanic Cloud. The Small Magellanic Cloud ( SMC) is a dwarf galaxy near the Milky Way. [ 5] Classified as a dwarf irregular galaxy, the SMC has a D 25 isophotal diameter of about 5.78 kiloparsecs (18,900 light-years), [ 1][ 3] and contains several hundred million stars. [ 5] It has a total mass of approximately 7 billion solar masses. [ 6]

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