Noun
elliptical galaxy (plural elliptical galaxies)
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A galaxy having a smooth, featureless light-profile. It is one of the three main classes of galaxies originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work “The Realm of the Nebulae”.
For example, the giant elliptical galaxy M87 has an absolute magnitude of −22 (i.e. as bright as about 60,000 stars of magnitude −10). Source: Internet
IC 1101 is a supergiant elliptical galaxy in the Abell 2029 galaxy cluster located about main from Earth. Source: Internet
M105 is about a degree away from the M95/M96 pair; it is an elliptical galaxy of the 9th magnitude, also about 20 million light-years from Earth.sfn NGC 2903 is a barred spiral galaxy discovered by William Herschel in 1784. Source: Internet
At the center of this cluster is an enormous elliptical galaxy likely formed from many smaller galaxies. citation The Bullet Cluster : HST image with overlays. Source: Internet
NGC 680, an elliptical galaxy with an asymmetrical boundary, is the brighter of the two at magnitude 12.9; NGC 678 has a magnitude of 13.35. Source: Internet
Astronomers predict that the three galaxies may merge millions of years in the future to form a giant elliptical galaxy. Source: Internet