What other types of galaxies are there besides the milky way?

Answer 1

The answer is YES. There are an estimated 200 billion galaxies in the known Universe. Most of these galaxies are relatively similar to our own, some bigger, some smaller, some differently shaped. Most galaxies hold 50-200 billion stars, and average about 50,000 - 100,000 light years across. Light travels at 180,000 miles PER SECOND, so if it only takes 2 seconds to get to the moon, 30 seconds to Mars, but 100,000 light years to cross our own galaxy, imagine the size! Mind boggling!

Answer 2

Our home galaxy is called the Milky Way. There are billions of other galaxies, two of the commonly known ones being the Andromeda Galaxy and the so-called "Sombrero Galaxy" in the constellation of Virgo (officially NGC 4594). All galaxies come in 4 basic shapes. 1) Irregular (or irregularly-shaped) 2) Globular (or roundish-shaped) 3) Spirals 4) Barred Spirals. We first thought The Milky Way was a spiral galaxy but recently discovered it is actually a barred spiral.

Answer 3

Nearby galaxies include the Greater and the Lesser Magellanic Clouds, and Andromeda. Many galaxies are known only by their catalogue numbers, however. There are really a lot of them (billions and billions, as Carl Sagan used to say).

Answer 4

Probably the most famous galaxy other than the Milky Way is the Andromeda Galaxy. It's the largest (in terms of size; recent evidence indicates that the Milky Way may be more massive) galaxy in our local group of galaxies.

Answer 5

The Milky Way's shape is itself uncertain. We cannot look at the Milky Way from outside to see its shape. It would take too long for a rocket to fly to the outskirts or above the Milky Way to take a picture. We have worked out that the Milky Way is probably a spiral galaxy. To do that, we have observed spiral galaxies other than the Milky Way. Thus our inspiration for a spiralgalaxy has come from outside our own galaxy. So spiral galaxies do exist! And if this Milky Way galaxy is really a spiral galaxy (it is no doubt well ascertained that it is), then indeed there are other spiral galaxies out there.

Answer 6

Every scientist and astronomer has his or her own favorite, of course, but probably the M31 in Andromeda, the "great spiral nebula in Andromeda" is probably the best known for a couple of reasons.

First, it's apparently very similar to our own Milky Way, so we can look at M31 and say "That's what our galaxy looks like".

Second, it's going to collide with the Milky Way in about 4 billion years or so. That's kind of special, right there.

Answer 7

There are billions of other galaxies rather than the milky way. These galaxies hang around the universe and their population could even expand more!

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Answer 8

Yes; many of the galaxies in the universe are shaped like the Milky Way galaxy, but many are not.

Answer 9

Yes, many more, too numerous to be counted. Some of those near us are: The Large Magellanic Cloud, The Small Magellanic Cloud, and Andromeda.

Answer 10

The first know galaxy other than The Milky Way is The Andromeda Nebula.