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    Galaxies are vast collections of gas, dust, and stars held together by gravity. There are over 125 billion galaxies in the known universe. The Milky Way galaxy, which contains our solar system and sun, is one of approximately 100 billion stars. Galaxies come in three basic shapes - spiral, elliptical, and irregular. Spiral galaxies have long arms spiraling out from a central bulge containing older stars, while elliptical galaxies have spherical or stretched out shapes containing some of the oldest stars. Irregular galaxies do not have a defined shape.

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    Galaxies are vast collections of gas, dust, and stars held together by gravity. There are over 125 billion galaxies in the known universe. The Milky Way galaxy, which contains our solar system and sun, is one of approximately 100 billion stars. Galaxies come in three basic shapes - spiral, elliptical, and irregular. Spiral galaxies have long arms spiraling out from a central bulge containing older stars, while elliptical galaxies have spherical or stretched out shapes containing some of the oldest stars. Irregular galaxies do not have a defined shape.

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    Galaxy Formation and Evolution - I

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    Galaxies are vast collections of gas, dust, and stars held together by gravity. There are over 125 billion galaxies in the known universe. The Milky Way galaxy, which contains our solar system and sun, is one of approximately 100 billion stars. Galaxies come in three basic shapes - spiral, elliptical, and irregular. Spiral galaxies have long arms spiraling out from a central bulge containing older stars, while elliptical galaxies have spherical or stretched out shapes containing some of the oldest stars. Irregular galaxies do not have a defined shape.

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    GALAXY

    FORMATION AND
    EVOLUTION - I
    WHAT IS A GALAXY?
    • From the Greek word for milk: Galaktos
    • A Galaxy is a collection of gas, dust and stars held
    together by gravity
    • Astronomers estimate there are over 125 billion galaxies
    in the universe
    THE MILKY WAY
    • Our solar system is contained in the Milky way Galaxy
    • Our Sun is one of approximately100 billion stars in this
    galaxy
    GALAXIES
    • Edwin Hubble in 1925 identified the first galaxy outside
    our own
    • Hubble initially thought he is observing a nebula
    • A nebula is a cloud of gas and dust often when stars are
    formed
    GALAXY SHAPES
    • Galaxies are classified as one of the three basic shapes:
    • Spiral, elliptical or Irregular
    SPIRAL GALAXY
    • When viewed from above looks like a pin wheel
    • Many long arms spiraling out from a central core
    • Central bulge is made from stars formed long ago
    • Outer arms are made of dust and newly formed stars
    • Glowing Halo of stars surrounds the entire galaxy
    • Milky way and Andromeda are both examples of Spiral
    galaxies.
    ELLIPTICAL GALAXY
    • Spherical to stretched out ellipse shape
    • Contains some of the oldest stars in the universe
    • Some of the largest galaxies in universe are elliptical
    • More than half of all galaxies are elliptical
    IRREGULAR GALAXY
    • Does not have any regular shapes to categorize it as
    elliptical or spherical
    • Contains a mixture of old and new stars
    NGC 1232
    M 110
    M81
    NGC 1055

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