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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 the universe made up of billions of galaxies separated by huge distances?

ore than a million. A galaxy with tens of millions of starts would be considered small. Out own galaxy has 200 billion to 400 billion stars. Some galaxies may contain more than 100 trillion stars.

How are stars distributed within an elliptical galaxy?

The center of the elliptical galaxy is very dense with many stars, and density decreases farther out.

Why is an irregular galaxy called a irregular galaxy?

The same stellar materials and dust any other galaxy is made of - it just hasn't taken on a coherent shape - yet, or possibly it had a collision encounter with another galaxy, leaving it "irregular" - either is possible.

What is beyond the galaxies?

there is just more space no one has seen is before so no one knows what is beyond the galaxies.

hmm i think beyond the galaxies there are no spacetime so nothing exist but time doesn't ends so there is no end to space so there might be vacum beyond the galaxies.

What are the names of stars in our galaxy?

It has been estimated that there are over a hundred billion galaxies. Not all of them have been named.

The most famous galaxies are:

Milky Way Galaxy: The galaxy where our Solar System resides.

Andromeda Galaxy: Our nearest large galaxy.

Large Magellanic Cloud: Brightest patch of nebulosity in the sky.

Canis Major Dwarf: Our nearest galaxy at 0.025 Mly

Others are named for their shape.

Cigar galaxy.

Comet galaxy.

Cartwheel galaxy.

Whirlpool galaxy.

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What is most common galaxies?

there are 3 types of galaxies. 1.spiral 2.elliptical 3.irregular

the main galaxy in our universe would be a spiral galaxy

Do stars form into galaxies?

Galaxies are vast collections of stars. So I guess you could say that a big group of stars forms a galaxy. Our galaxy has many big clusters of stars within it, so not all star clusters are galaxies. If you have a cluster of several million or billion (or trillion) stars surrounded by a lot of empty space, that is probably a galaxy.

What are bright cool stars?

To be bright you need to be hot, close or have a large surface area.

The brightest coolest stars are red super giants. They have such a large surface area, that even though their surface temperature is cool - in star terms - their large surface area makes them appear bright.

What are facts about the milky way galaxy?

It's a barred spiral.

There's a supermassive black hole at its heart.

It's a cannibal.

You can only see 0.000003% percent of it

90% of it is invisible.

It has the same proportion as a stack of four DVDs

...sorry that's all i could find

who ever wrote this is stupid and don't got no brain get a life!!!!!!!!!

How can you catch a yoake in monster galaxy?

catch it with a master ball malamang seeds

What is the nearest galaxy to earth?

  • Milky Way Galaxy - Our Galaxy
  • Omega Centauri - former galaxy - 0.0183 million light years away
  • Canis Major Dwarf - 0.025 million light years away
  • Virgo Stellar Stream - 0.03 million light years away
  • Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy - 0.81 million light years away
  • Large Magellanic Cloud - 0.163 million light years away
  • Andromeda Galaxy - Largest - 2.5 million miles away.

The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy orbits the Milky Way at 42,000 light years from the galactic center. The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy orbits at 50,000 light years. The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are also very close to the Milky Way, but there is some debate over whether they are "orbiting" the larger galaxy. However, orbiting or not, they are still considered "satellites" of the Milky Way. All of these galaxies are very small compared to the Milky Way and most are irregular in shape, all of them lacking the spiral structure normally associated with a well-organized galaxy. The Phoenix Dwarf Galaxy is 1.44 million light years from the center of the Milky Way, and NGC 6822 (aka Barnard's Galaxy) is 1.6 million light years away.

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What are the names of some irregular galaxies?

Canis Major Dwarf and Small Magellanic Cloud are irregular satellite galaxies of the Milky Way.
The two irregular galaxies that orbit the Milky Way are the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.

What is bigger than a galaxy cluster?

The visible universe. I'm a bit of a space buff and to my knowledge there aren't any celestial

structures that are larger than a galaxy cluster. The only one I've come upon is the visible universe itself. I could be wrong about that but then again, I could be right. That tends to be how celestial questions like that one go. Hope this helps.

Answer 2:

Galaxy clusters are clusters of galaxies and therefore larger than individual galaxies. Superclusters are clusters of galaxy clusters and so are larger then galaxy clusters. Filaments are collections of superclusters and are the largest known structures in the universe.

What is the nearest spiral galaxy to your Milky Way?

The closest Galaxy to us (apart form the Milkyway in which we sit), is the The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy (an irregular galaxy) located about 25,000 light-years away from our Solar System. Then there are the two satellite galaxies to ours, the large and small Magellanic Clouds. The LMC lies about 160,000 light years away and while the SMC is around 200,000 light years away.

After these comes the Andromeda Galaxy, which is a separate spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years from Earth.

Note, there may be some closer remnants of galaxies that the Milky Way has consumed that could be argued to be closer.

What are 2 ways in which galaxies can differ from one another?

Constellations are patterns of stars that we see in the sky. There are 88 official constellations, like Leo, Orion, Taurus etc. We are in the galaxy called the Milky Way, as are all the stars you can see in all of those constellations. A galaxy is a massive collection of stars. We can see some other galaxies, such as Andromeda, but they just look like a clump of dust in the sky because they are so far away, and we can't pick out individual stars.

Which is the best monster galaxy moga?

i think it is yugel bcoz people think winja is only having regroth ability and no other but i have found by evolving colibri that yugel also has his special ability as regrowth

What are the different group of stars?

While some people may call them star clouds, other use the term star clusters. They refer to the same group of stars.

What galaxy is the closest large galaxy to the milky way?

The nearest galaxy is Andromeda, which is predicted to collide with the Milkey Way, our galaxy, in billions of years.

What occurs in HII regions of the galaxy?

From Wikipedia: "An astronomical body's Hill sphere is the region in which it dominates the attraction of satellites." In other words, any object (such as a star, or a small galaxy) within a galaxy's Hill sphere can have a stable orbit; the orbit of anything outside of such a Hill sphere will eventually decay; in other words, it might escape, or fall towards the galaxy.