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historically, galaxies have been classed or categorized according to their apparent shape (usually referred to as their visual morphology).

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What is the possessive form of galaxies?

The possessive form for the plural noun galaxies is galaxies'.Example: Their galaxies' paths do not coordinate.


What are galaxies classified as?

Galaxies are classified based on their shape and structure. The main types of galaxies are spiral, elliptical, and irregular. Spiral galaxies have distinct arms of stars, elliptical galaxies are more oval-shaped with older stars, and irregular galaxies have a less defined shape.


Different kinds of galaxes?

There are three main types of galaxies: spiral galaxies (like the Milky Way), elliptical galaxies (oval or spherical in shape), and irregular galaxies (lacking a distinct shape). These classifications are based on the galaxies' shapes and structures.


What are the different names of galaxies in the universe?

Galaxies in the universe have different names based on their shape and structure. Some common types of galaxies include spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies, and irregular galaxies. Each type has its own unique characteristics and features.


Do galaxies all have the same shape?

Galaxies may have any of four general shapes. Elliptical galaxies show little or no structure and vary in general shape from moderately flat and round or oval to spherical. Spiral galaxies have a small, bright central region, or nucleus, and arms that come out of the nucleus and wind around, trailing off like a giant pinwheel. In barred spiral galaxies, the arms extend sideways in a short straight line before turning off into the spiral shape. Both kinds of spiral systems are flat. Irregular galaxies are usually rather small and do not have a symmetrical shape.

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Galaxies are categorized according to their?

size and shape


What are the other heavenly bodies aside from comets?

Asteriods and meteors. everything you see in the night sky is classed as a heavenly body, planets, stars, moons and galaxies


Who classify galaxies according to shape and distance?

Astromoners and Astrologists.


Galaxy are callsified according to there?

Galaxies are primarily classified according to their shape. Such as spiral, elliptical, and globular.


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Who classified galaxies according to three distinct patterns?

Edwin Hubble


What is the verb form of class?

It is the same class. The archeologist classed the fossils according to location.


Edwin Hubble categorized galaxies according to their?

Shape, or morph. The spiral galaxies, elliptical galaxies, lenticular, barred spiral, and irregular galaxies all are different shapes or morphs of galaxies, and so they are classified differently.


According to hubbles law galaxies are retreating from earth at speed that is proportional to their?

distance


Who found the galaxies?

who discovered the galaxies who discovered the galaxies


Who classified the galaxies according to shape and distance and concluded that galaxies move away from each other at a rate dependent to the distance between them?

Edwin Hubble, in the 1920s. Later they named a telescope after him.


Do distant galaxies have more heavy elements than nearby galaxies?

The distribution of metals (In astronomy, that is any element other that hydrogen and helium) is reliant of the population stars. (See related question) Metal rich stars, population I stars, are the latest "breed" of stars, whereas population III stars are the oldest and are classed as metal free stars. So the furthest galaxies are likely to be formed from the initial gases from the big bang and will be metal free stars,