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No, a nebula is only a few light-years across while a galaxy is thousands of light-years across.
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Nebula may exist only within your galaxy?
Nebula exist in all galaxies.
Spiral galaxies used to be called spiral nebulae?
Before we realized the difference between galaxies and nebula, all the galaxies were called nebula. Nebula now are realized to be vast clouds of interstellar hydrogen or other gasses, often light years in diameter. An example is the Orion Nebula, in the middle of the sword of the constellation of Orion. This nebula, some 1500 light years away, is a nursery for stars. Galaxies, on the other hand, are vast seas of stars, millions to billions of light years away. Our galaxy is a barred spiral that contains 200 billion stars or more. Andromeda is our closest cousin (there are some smaller dwarf galaxies that are closer yet). It is a spiral galaxy 2.5 million light years away. Within some 15 billion light years in any direction one cares to look there are roughly 100 billion galaxies. That's quite a few. Those galaxies also likely contain their own nebula. Our galaxy also contains many nebula--collections of gasses that have yet to coalesce into stars, or "planetary nebula" which are gasses blown off by stars during nova or supernova events.
What Galaxy is a nebula found?
Nebulae are found in most galaxies
The names of the two well-known nebulae?
Andromeda, Milky Way These are galaxies ^ Orion Nebula Eagle Nebula
Are there any galaxies nebulae or meteor showers found in Aquarius?
There are galaxies and nebula in every direction, including Aquarius.
What is in galaxies?
nebula, dust, solar systems and other solar masses
Do Galaxies contain millions of stars?
Smaller galaxies do. Larger galaxies contain billions or even trillions of stars.
What are the things that can be observed in space?
Everything, galaxies, stars, nebula, gas's, rocks.
What type of galaxys are nebulas often found in?
There are many types of nebula and they can form within any galaxy. Generally, the normal types of nebula - planetary and supernova remnants will occur in the younger galaxies, so at a push spiral galaxies.
In which of these galaxies would you be least likely to find an ionization nebula?
a large elliptical galaxy
What does a nebula contain of high density?
Hydrogen!
What planets have galaxies?
None. Galaxies on the other hand do contain planets
