Galaxy shapes (IMAGE)

International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research

Galaxy shapes

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Different shapes of galaxies, left to right: elliptical, lenticular, spiral, and irregular/miscellaneous.

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Credit: NASA/Hubble (elliptical galaxy M87), ESA/Hubble & NASA (lenticular galaxy NGC 6861 and the colliding Antennae galaxies), and David Dayag (the Andromeda spiral galaxy).

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