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Galaxies

Galaxies are large systems of stars and interstellar matter, and they contain billions of stars. Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has 200 to 400 billion stars, and there are over one billion known galaxies. Questions that have to do with galaxies in general and specific galaxies are perfect for this category!

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Is it true that most galaxies are elliptical?

Messier 32 is a dwarf elliptical galaxy about 2.65 million light years away in the constellation Andromeda

Maffei 1
is a giant elliptical galaxy in the constellation about 10 billion light years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. It is the closest giant elliptical galaxy to the Milky Way

What type of galaxy includes little gas and dust and no longer produces stars?

the galaxy that contains no blue stars is I DO NOT KNOW and i would like to know the answer too

How many arms does the barred spiral galaxy have?

3-kpc and Perseus Arm

Norma and Outer arm (Along with a newly discovered extension)

Scutum-Centaurus Arm

Carina-Sagittarius Arm

There are at least two smaller arms or spurs, including:

Orion-Cygnus arm (which contains the Sun and Solar System).

What galaxy is shaped like a disk?

Most galaxies are shaped like a disk. It's the way they are formed.

One of the most beautiful is the Sombrero Galaxy. [See related link for a picture]

Where is planet earth in the milky way galaxy?

our galaxy contains between 200- to 400-billion stars arranged in a giant disc shape. The diameter is 100,000 light years with an average thickness of 10,000 light years. The Earth is located about 28,000 light years from the center of the Milky Way.

What kind of star is alrisha?

Alrisha is a binary star (two stars) that are both white dwarfs. It is located at the bottom of Pisces, and is the star that binds the tails of the two Pisces fish together. Since both stars are white dwarfs, the stars are degenerate, meaning they no longer fuse energy, and are in the process of cooling down.

What is gravitys role in the structures of galaxies?

It's what holds them together.

(what's it like in your universe? ... since you're implying that yours is different.)

How many stars does an average galaxy contain?

Well, the phrase "typical galaxy" begs a debate in itself (smile), but the most commonly heard figure for "stars in a typical galaxy" is 100 billion. And many astronomers believe there may be 100 billion galaxies in the known universe. The math gets kind of heavy duty!

What do stars in the galaxy have in common with sun?

One thing is that they all seem to follow the same basic procedure of stellar evolution we observe among the stars in our own galaxy.

Where is the Sombrero Galaxy?

The Sombrero Galaxy (M104) is an unbarred spiral galaxy in the constellation Virgo.

See related links for more information, a picture and a star map.

Are there any galaxies other than the Milky Way?

Yes. There are more glaxies than just ours. The observable univers contains an estimated 100 billion galaxies. There may be other galaxies out there too, ones so distant that their light has not reached us.

What is Galaxy Pegasus special move?

he has pegasus stargazer attack , storm bringer, pegasus starblast attack, tornado wing, galaxy nova, and star booster attack.

What is the Pinwheel Galaxy?

The Pinwheel Galaxy (also known as Messier 101 or NGC 5457) is about 27 million light years away and can be found in the constellation Ursa Major.

See related link for a star map.

Why do galaxies spiral?

the spiral form is the result if the two principal vectors at work on the particulate masses. These are the incoming linear velocity and the attraction to the centre of capture (Black Hole?) which exercises a high gravitational pull which increases the velocity of the particle.

Which types of galaxies have no specific shape or centalized point of gravitation?

It is known as an irregular galaxy. A few different Classifications are :

Irr L (some structure)

Irr LL (No visible structure)

Also Dward Irregulars :

DL

DLRRS (Low Metallicity)

What galaxy is the closet large galaxy to the Milky Way?

The closest spiral galaxy to us is known as the Andromeda galaxy.The Large and Small Magellanic Cloud closer,but there not spiral galaxy there dwarf galaxies.The Andromeda galaxy is about 2,000,000 light years away,while the Large Magellanic Cloud is 160,000 light years away,and the Small Magellanic Cloud is 200,000 light years away.That is why the Large Magellanic Cloud looks larger.

What are galaxies made of and how is it held together?

Everything is made of matter, and all matter is made of atoms. Atoms are made of protons, neutrons, and electrons which are all made of quarks and bozons. It gets smaller but those are as of yet unknown.

What is the typical diameter of a galaxy?

The stellar disk of the Milky Way Galaxy is approximately 100,000 light-years (9×1017 km) (6×1017 mi) in diameter, and is considered to be, on average, about 1,000 light-years (9×1015 km) thick. It is estimated to contain at least What_is_the_diameter_of_the_milky_way_galaxybillion stars and possibly up to 400 billion.

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Do all galaxies move at the same speed?

As with all space questions about speed, it all depends on your point of reference.

Within the Milky Way, the orbital rate of the stars increase as you move away from the centre of the galaxy.

Do some dwarf galaxies contain 1 billion stars?

Yes. Some dwarf galaxies contain at least 1 billion stars.

Explain how all galaxies are similar?

All galaxies are massive clusters of stars scattered across the universe. Many galaxies take the same form, for instance, spiral and elliptical galaxies. Some galaxies also have a black hole in their center.

Would you expect metal to be more abundant in old stars or in new stars?

This is an excellent question!

All the heavier elements past hydrogen and helium (and traces of lithium, beryllium, and boron) are NOT as old as the universe. Instead they have been synthesized inside stars; it is energy from nuclear fusion of light elements into heavier ones that powers stars. Stars on the main sequence, like the Sun, take hydrogen and fuze it into helium; once the Sun has sun out of hydrogen in its core it will begin turning helium into carbon, nitrogen,and oxygen, and become a red giant.

Our sun will not evolve past burning helium into carbon, but higher-mass stars will continue to synthesize heavier and heavier elements, and explode as supernovae once they have converted a mass of more than 1.4 times the mass of the Sun into iron. Pull out a periodic table; the elements up to iron are made in stars, and release energy when they are made. Everything past iron costs energy to make, and so is only produced in supernovae, and in the neutron-capture reactions in a special type of red giant star called an asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star.

When a high-mass star explodes as a supernova, it throws most of its mass back in to interstellar space. The same is true of AGB stars, which puff off their outer layers, forming so-called planetary nebulae. In either case, there are heavy elements (metals) being put in the interstellar medium. New stars are formed out of the gravitational collapse of cold gas and dust clouds which are just regions of denser interstellar medium. So, the heavy elements made in old stars get recycled into new stars! We know that the material that makes up the Earth was once inside a massive star; our solar system is 'recycled' from several previous generations of massive stars. Old stars formed much earlier in our galaxy's history are made of material that hasn't been recycled through as many generations of stars, so these stars contain less metals. We call these old stars 'Population II" stars, while metal-rich stars like our Sun are "Population I". There is active research trying to find primordial "Population III" stars, which are first-generation stars that contain no material that has been through a supernova.

By they way, note that this means YOU are made out of stars! They hydrogen in you is from the beginning of the universe ~13 billion years ago, while the carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, calcium, phosphorous, potassium, etc. are all from the interior of long-dead stars.

What are some planets in other galaxies?

There are billions of planets in the galaxy. Most of them have no names and have not been observed yet.

As of 1 September 2017, there have been confirmed detections of 3,660 exoplanets in 2,744 planetary systems and 614 multiple planetary systems.

When was the last Galactic alignment?

The last one was last year. There will be one this year, and another one next year.

As the earth goes in a circle around the sun, at some point the earth, sun, and the center of the galaxy line up.