What is An example of a elliptical galaxy?

Answer 1

The two most massive members of the local group are the Milky Way (Our Galaxy) and the Andromeda Galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy is the largest but it may not be the most massive, as recent findings suggest that the Milky Way contains more dark matter and may be the most massive in the local group.

Answer 2

Messier 87, also known as Virgo A, is a well-known elliptical galaxy located in the Virgo constellation. It is one of the largest and brightest elliptical galaxies in the nearby universe and is notable for its massive central supermassive black hole and jet of relativistic particles emanating from it.

Answer 3

I've personally never seen any of them, unless you count the Milky Way.

It's reportedly possible with dark skies (ie far away from cities, which is why I've never seen it) to see the Andromeda Galaxy.

The other two that I know of that are supposedly visible are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, but those are only visible from the Southern Hemisphere, which is why I've never seen THEM.

Answer 4

There are galaxies so far from us that we can't measure them, and galaxies even farther away, that
we can't see at all. So we don't know which galaxies are the largest.

Also, since the galaxies we can see number in the millions, very few have been named.

Answer 5

In terms of the number of stars it contains, the Milky Way is the second largest galaxy in the local group, and it may be the most massive.

So no, it's not smaller than most galaxies.

Answer 6

No. In the local group, it's got the second-highest number of stars (behind the Andromeda galaxy) and it may be the most massive.

There are plenty of galaxies larger than the Milky Way, but there are even more that are smaller.

Answer 7

No, it is not the biggest galaxy. The Andromeda Galaxy (one of our "nearest" galactic neighbours) is larger. The largest galaxies known exist at the center of galactic clusters and are usually spherical or oval in shape. They are called cD galaxies. cD galaxies have a large diffuse envelope of stars and gas surrounding an elliptical nucleus similar to regular elliptical galaxies. These cD galaxies are so large because they consistently merge with other smaller nearby galaxies.

These giant galaxies can hold trillions of stellar masses, dwarfing our own galaxy, the milky way, by more than an order of magnitude. The milky way is an average to large sized barred spiral galaxy. It will eventually collide with its neighbour, the Andromeda Galaxy (in about 4 billions years or so) and together they will form a large elliptical galaxy. Don't worry about it - the earth will have ceased being inhabitable LONG before then...

The largest galaxy known is IC 1101

Answer 8

The Milky Way is about 100,000 light years in diameter (one light year is about 9.5 x 1015 meters), but only about 1000 light years thick while M10 is a globular cluster of about 100 stars, all quite similar in size, M12 is an open cluster of bright and fainter stars, more loosely packed than M10. Again about 100 stars while M14 is a fine globular cluster of many hundreds of stars and with a good Telescope can be resolved to the core, on a moonless night.

No it is actually one of the largest galaxies the only other one that is larger is the Andromeda Galaxy(M31)

Answer 9

Well really there are billions of trillions of stars and billions of galaxies in the universe and the cosmos and galaxies have not yet formed that can still have the capability to form. The Milky Way is 100,000 light years in diameter. That is the equivilent of 587,900,000,000,000,000 miles and is 1,000 lightyears thick. That does seem large and of course galaxies come in all different sizes including small. So, you can draw to a conclusion that the Milky Way is an average to smaller sized galaxy compared to others but soon will collide with the Andromeda Constellation to form a muich larger galaxy. Other Galaxy are smaller than the Milky Way and soom are larger than it although we cannot interpret actual size of other galaxies.

Answer 10

* Milky Way * Andromeda * Triangulum * Canis Major Dwarf * M110 (NGC 205) * Large Magellanic Cloud * Small Magellanic Cloud * Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte

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