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Spiral arms are parts of galaxies - both the galaxies and their spiral arms are huge, by our everyday standards. Spiral arms basically contain most of what the galaxies contain - including stars, dust, gas.
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Does your solar system lies in the galaxy's disk or spiral arms?
The spiral arms
WHere are global clusters found?
In spiral arms of spiral galaxies
Which galaxy is thick in the center and has flattened arms?
A spiral galaxy or barred spiral.
What kind of galaxy would the spiral density wave produce if it acted alone?
Spiral arms come in different "flavors": 10% grand-design (two well-defined spiral arms) 60% multiple-arm, 30% flocculent spirals (no well-defined arms at all). Spiral arms seem to be trailing arms, but this is very hard to determine. In some rare cases, spiral arms may lead.
How are barred spiral galaxy different from spiral galaxy?
An ordinary spiral galaxy has spiral arms coming out of the core. In a barred galaxy, the central area consists of a bar of stars and the spiral arms are attached to the ends of the bar.
Where are large dust clouds predominantly located in the galaxy M51?
within or on the edges of the spiral arms.
How does a lenticular galaxy differ from a normal spiral galaxy?
It has no spiral arms.
Where can the Fibonacci spiral be found in the real world?
Arms of spiral galaxies.
What galaxy has arms where lots of new stars are being born?
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is a spiral galaxy (actually a bared spiral) and new stars are being born in the spiral arms.
What is the name of the limbs in a spiral galaxy?
arms
What is the name of the limbs in spiral galaxies?
Arms
What forms in the great clouds of gas and dust in the spiral arms of a galaxy?
Stars form in the great clouds of gas and dust in the spiral arms of a galaxy.
