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...
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Dwarf elliptical galaxies (dEs) are elliptical galaxies that are smaller than ordinary elliptical galaxies. They are quite common in galaxy groups and...
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The type-cD galaxy (also cD-type galaxy, cD galaxy) is a galaxy morphology classification, a subtype of type-D giant elliptical galaxy. Characterized by...
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Messier 87 (redirect from Elliptical galaxy M87)
supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains several trillion stars. One of the largest and most massive galaxies in the local...
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common feature at the centres of galaxies. Galaxies are categorised according to their visual morphology as elliptical, spiral, or irregular. The Milky...
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Spheroidal Galaxy (Sgr dSph), also known as the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy (Sgr dE or Sag DEG), is an elliptical loop-shaped satellite galaxy of the...
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are more like elliptical galaxies. Spiral galaxies are quite thin, dense, and rotate relatively fast, while the stars in elliptical galaxies have randomly...
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A lenticular galaxy (denoted S0) is a type of galaxy intermediate between an elliptical (denoted E) and a spiral galaxy in galaxy morphological classification...
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spiral galaxy and barred spiral galaxy Lenticular galaxy – Class of galaxy between an elliptical galaxy and a spiral galaxy Ring galaxy – Galaxy with an...
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Messier 110 (redirect from Elliptical Galaxy M110)
is a dwarf elliptical galaxy that is a satellite of the Andromeda Galaxy in the Local Group. Charles Messier never included the galaxy in his list,...
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