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What is a large galaxy?

Updated: 8/18/2019
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Most galaxies are large. Famous ones are:

  • Milky Way galaxy
  • Andromeda galaxy
  • Cartwheel galaxy
  • Pinwheel galaxy
  • IC 1101 is a supergiant lenticular galaxy, the largest known galaxy.

Even "small" galaxies are quite large by normal Earth standards.

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