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GALAXY CLASSIFICATION CHART
CLASSIFICATION OF GALAX
TYPES OF GALAXIES
What is galaxy?
a group of billions of stars and their
planets, gas, and dust that extends
over many thousands of light-years
and forms a unit within the
universe.
How solar system
is different from
galaxy?
DISCOVERY
The breakthrough came in 1924 when
Edwin Hubble was able to measure the
distance to the “Great Nebula in
Andromeda” and found its distance to
be much larger than the diameter of the
Milky Way. This meant that M 31, and
by extension other spiral nebulae, were
galaxies in their own right, comparable
to or even larger than the Milky Way.
DISCOVERY
At the beginning of the 20th
century, what we now call
spiral galaxies were referred to
as “spiral nebulae” and most
astronomers believed them to
be clouds of gas and stars
associated with our own Milky
Way.
How are GALAXIES
named?
Astronomers
generally refer M32
to galaxies by
their catalog
names.
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How are GALAXIES
named?
Galaxies are
named by the
constellation in
which they are
found. ANDROMEDA
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CLASSIFICATION
 Elliptical Galaxy
 Spiral Galaxy
 Barred Galaxy
 Irregular Galaxy
 SPIRAL
GALAxIES
SPIRAL GALAXY
3 main
components
such as bulge,
disk and halo.
SPIRAL GALAXY
ELLIPTICAL
GALAxIES
ELLIPTICAL GALAXY
 Round and
smooth and has a
great mass.
 have very little gas
and dust.
 Dwarfs to giants
ELLIPTICAL GALAXY
 BARRED
GALAxIES
BARRED SPIRAL GALAXY
 Consists of a long
bar of individual
stars…
 The upper half of
the galaxy is
brighter than the
lower half.
BARRED SPIRAL GALAXY
IRREGULAR
GALAxIES
IRREGULAR GALAXY
 They are frequently
the result of
collisions between
galaxies or
gravitational
interactions
between galaxies.
IRREGULAR GALAXY

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GENYO SHARED
BLOG TIME
1. Why do people put things
into classifications or
categories? How does this
help us?
2. What are some things we
categorize in our daily lives?
Why?
GENYO QUIZ
TIME 