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List of galaxies

List of galaxies and galaxy clusters. Because there are so many galaxies in the universe, this list has been divided into several categories.

The first catalog that catalogues galaxies is the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies.

List of nearby galaxies

This is list of nearby galaxies to the Milky Way Galaxy, our galaxy. The first four listed below are part of the Local Group of galaxies, a galaxy group containing at least 50 galaxies, including the Milky Way and Andromeda.

List of nearby Galaxies
Image Name Distance Information
  Large Magellanic Cloud 162,980 light years This is a galaxy satellite of our Milky Way, and the prototype for the class "Magellanic type spiral".
  Small Magellanic Cloud 200,000 light years This is a galaxy satellite of our Milky Way.
  Andromeda Galaxy 2,500,000 light years Largest galaxy in the Local Group
  Triangulum Galaxy 3,000,000 light years Second nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way; Third largest galaxy in the Local Group.
  NGC 3109 4,340,000 light years On the outskirts of the Local Group; may be a Magellanic type spiral .
  NGC 300 6,000,000 light years Between the Sculptor Group and the Local Group; might form a gravitationally bound pair with NGC 55 (see below).
  NGC 55 6,500,300 light years Might form a gravitationally bound pair with NGC 300 (see above)

List of farthest galaxies

This is list of farthest galaxy from Milky Way. Remember, the farther away from a galaxy, the greater the redshift of galaxy. Redshift is when objects appear in a red color because they move away from us.

Note that the idea that the radius of the observable universe must amount to only 13.8 billion light-years (like the age of universe) is incorrect. Light travel distance (LTD) is time required for light to reach the observer.

(≈) means "almost equal to."

Farthest galaxies
Image Name Distance Redshift
  GN-z11 ≈ 32 billion light years (proper distance)

≈ 13.8 billion light years (light travel distance)

z = 10.6
  EGSY8p7 13.2 billion light years (light travel distance) z = 8.68
  EGS-zs8-1 13.04 billion light years (light travel distance) z = 7.73

And other galaxies :

List Of Galaxies Media

  • Size (left) and distance (right) of a few well-known galaxies put to scale

  • The Andromeda Galaxy is a spiral galaxy approximately 2.5 million light-years away in the constellation Andromeda. The image also shows Messier Objects 32 and 110, as well as

  • The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped the best ever image of the Antennae Galaxies. Hubble has released images of these stunning galaxies twice before, once using observations from its Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) in 1997, and again in 2006 from the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS).

  • NGCHSTFull

  • The spiral galaxy Messier 81 is tilted at an oblique angle on to our line of sight, giving a "birds-eye view" of the spiral structure. The galaxy is similar to our Milky Way, but our favorable view provides a better picture of the typical architecture of spiral galaxies. Though the galaxy is 11.6 million light-years away, NASA

  • Here's a particular kind of galactic grouping called an overlap. It is rare to find these line-of-sight treasures in unperturbed, likely non-interacting states or early stage interacting like this.*This image is an experiment combining data from HST with William Keel's ground-based WIYN observations.

  • An image of the Cartwheel Galaxy taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has been reprocessed using the latest techniques to mark the closure of the Space Telescope European Coordination Facility (ST-ECF), based near Munich in Germany, and to celebrate its achievements in supporting Hubble science in Europe over the past 26 years.*Astronomer Bob Fosbury, who is stepping down as Head of the ST-ECF, was responsible for much of the early research into the Cartwheel Galaxy along with the late Tim Hawarden — including giving the object its very apposite name — and so this image was se

  • To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 16 years of success, the two space agencies involved in the project, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), are releasing this image of the magnificent starburst galaxy, Messier 82 (M82). This mosaic image is the sharpest wide-angle view ever obtained of M82.

  • The Circinus Galaxy is an active spiral galaxy that lies near the plane of our Milky Way so that it is rather heavily obscured by intervening stars and whatever other gas and dust lies along our line-of-sight to it. The brightly glowing filaments are yellowish this time because I had two (!) sets of narrowband filters to work with instead of just one or none.

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References

  1. ↑ https://arxiv.org/PS_cache/astro-ph/pdf/0209/0209205v2.pdf
  2. ↑ Uson, Juan M.; et al. (1990). "The central galaxy in Abell 2029 – an old supergiant". Science. 250 (4980): 539–540. Bibcode:1990Sci...250..539U. doi:10.1126/science.250.4980.539. PMID 17751483. S2CID 23362384.
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