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2. 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 .

3. Milky Way - Wikipedia

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   The Milky Way [c] is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the night sky formed from stars that cannot be individually distinguished by the naked eye.

4. Galaxy - Wikipedia

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   Galaxy. NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 55,000 light-years in diameter and approximately 60 million light-years from Earth. A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity. [1] [2] The word is derived from the Greek galaxias ...

5. Andromeda Galaxy - Wikipedia

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   Andromeda Galaxy. A visible light image of the Andromeda Galaxy. Messier 32 is to the left of the galactic nucleus and Messier 110 is at the bottom right. The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged as Messier 31, M31, and NGC 224.

6. GLASS-z12 - Wikipedia

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   GLASS-z12. GLASS-z12 (formerly known as GLASS-z13) is a Lyman-break galaxy discovered by the Grism Lens-Amplified Survey from Space (GLASS) observing program using the James Webb Space Telescope 's NIRCam in July 2022. [8] [9] Spectroscopic observations of GLASS-z12 by the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in August 2022 confirmed that the ...

7. Elliptical galaxy - Wikipedia

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   An elliptical galaxy is a type of galaxy with an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless image. They are one of the four main classes of galaxy described by Edwin Hubble in his Hubble sequence and 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae, [1] along with spiral and lenticular galaxies. Elliptical (E) galaxies are, together ...