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A Hubble Space Telescope image of the supergiant elliptical galaxy ESO 306-17. Supergiant elliptical galaxies are some of the largest galaxies known. This is a list of largest galaxies known, sorted by order of increasing major axis diameters. The unit of measurement used is the light-year (approximately 9.46 × 10 12 kilometers).
In the core of the larger spiral structure of NGC 1300, the nucleus shows its own extraordinary and distinct "grand-design" spiral structure that is about 3,300 light-years (1 kiloparsec) long. Only galaxies with large-scale bars appear to have these grand-design inner disks — a spiral within a spiral.
This category is for images of galaxies. Media in category "Galaxy images" The following 4 files are in this category, out of 4 total.
Event in images is a spindle shape and a ring shape. Milky Way: Sagittarius (centre) The appearance from Earth of the galaxy—a band of light The galaxy containing the Sun and its Solar System, and therefore Earth. Needle Galaxy: Coma Berenices: Named due to its slender appearance. Also known as Caldwell 38 Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte: Cetus
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18:05, 23 April 2007. 3,915 × 3,885 (14.64 MB) WilliamKF. == Description == This new NASA Hubble Space Telescope image of the Antennae galaxies (NGC 4038 & 4039) is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. During the course of the collision, billions of stars will be formed.
The Solar System traces out a sinusoidal path in its orbit around the galactic center. Using Galactic North as the initial frame of reference, the Earth and Sun rotate counterclockwise, and the Earth revolves in a counterclockwise direction around the Sun. However, the Sun and its satellites revolve CLOCKWISE around the Milky Way.
Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies. The Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies is a textbook and atlas of 35 well studied galaxies (including our Galaxy) authored by Glen Mackie of the Centre for Astrophysics & Supercomputing, Swinburne University of Technology. It was originally published in 2011 by Cambridge University Press.