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The Whirlpool Galaxy, situated close to our own Milky Way and a familiar one for astronomers and stargazers alike is the first galaxy of its kind classified as spiral because of its shape. When Charles Messier was looking for comets in the 18th century, he discovered a galaxy that was so intricate and beautiful. It …
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Located in the shape of a triangle, Triangulum is the third-largest galaxy among our Local Group. The Milky Way, Andromeda Galaxy, and Triangulum are all great spiral galaxies. So much so that when images of the galaxy appear on screens they depict arms loosely wound around a core from which stars dangle like lights on …
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The Sombrero Galaxy, one of the more unusual-looking barred spiral galaxies, owes its name to its resemblance to the Mexican hat. The galaxy has a large central bulge and bright nucleus, but its appearance is due to our seeing the spiral arms from an angle. The dust lane that circles this part of the sky …
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The Pinwheel Galaxy is a part of the constellation Ursa Major, also known as the Big Dipper or Great Bear. This galaxy has been estimated to be about 21 million light-years from earth and it’s one out of billions in our universe! The Pinwheel Galaxy is thought to be home to more than a trillion …
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The Magellanic Clouds are two galaxies, one of which can be seen from the southern hemisphere. The Magellanic Clouds were once thought to be a single, nearby galaxy with an unknown type of irregularity. Now astronomers have figured out that the two clouds are in fact separated into two distinct regions and can only now …
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There is a constellation in the Southern Hemisphere that has been hiding an incredible secret for over 200 million years. The two Spiral galaxies are being destroyed by each other and creating thousands of new stars at the same time. NASA says that this galaxy is in a state of “starburst,” whereby all the gasses …
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Messier 87 is also called M87 or NGC 4486 and this elliptical supergiant galaxy’s position in the heart of Virgo Cluster, a constellation located south on Earth. It has been dubbed as “Virgo A” or Smoking Gun because it’s one of the largest galaxies that we can see from earth with its size being more …
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The Andromeda Galaxy is about 2.5 million light-years from Earth and a spiral galaxy that is also known as Messier 31 or M31. Located in the Andromeda constellation, our solar system’s closest spiral galaxy is only a few million light-years away. Surprisingly, it isn’t even close to being the nearest overall galaxy as well! The …
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The Milky Way galaxy is home to over 200 billion stars, but it gets much more interesting than that. You could say this massive spiral of stars and dust has four major arms in its disk with a spur at least one new arm discovered or even 26 thousand light-years away from Earth! It’s also …
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A meteor shower is a beautiful, dazzling display of lights in the sky. It’s not just one meteor, but many that seem to come from the same point because they all originate from space rocks left behind by comets or asteroids and now burn up into dust as heat escapes through gravity. Facts About Meteor …
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