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galaxies A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, dark matter, bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek ' (), literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System. ...

Lists of galaxies

List of galaxies The following is a list of notable galaxies. There are about 51 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000 in the Local Supercluster, and an estimated 100 billion in all of the obs ...

, general list of galaxies ; Galaxies by type *

List of spiral galaxies A spiral galaxy is a type of galaxy characterized by a central bulge of old Population II stars surrounded by a rotating disc of younger Population I stars. A spiral galaxy maintains its spirals arms due to density wave theory. __TOC__ Spira ...

* List of ring galaxies *

List of polar-ring galaxies The following table lists polar-ring galaxies: List Inner Polar Rings Some galaxies feature a "polar ring" within the disk of the galaxy * UGC 5600Astronomy Letters, Volume 27, Number 2, February 2001, pp. 74-80(7) A photometric study of the ...

List of quasars This article contains lists of quasars. More than a million quasars have been observed, so any list on Wikipedia is necessarily a selection of them. Proper naming of quasars are by Catalogue Entry, Qxxxx±yy using B1950 coordinates, or QSO Jxxxx ...

; Galaxies by association *

List of largest galaxies This is a list of largest galaxies known, sorted by order of increasing major axis diameters. The unit of measurement used is the light-year (approximately 9.46 kilometers). Overview Galaxies are vast collections of stars, planets, nebulae an ...

List of nearest galaxies This is a list of known galaxies within 3.8 megaparsecs (12.4 million light-years) of the Solar System, in ascending order of heliocentric distance, or the distance to the Sun. This encompasses about 50 major Local Group galaxies, and some that ar ...

Satellite galaxies of the Milky Way The Milky Way has several smaller galaxies gravitationally bound to it, as part of the Milky Way subgroup, which is part of the local galaxy cluster, the Local Group. There are 59 small galaxies confirmed to be within of the Milky Way, but no ...

; Other characteristics * List of galaxies named after people * List of galaxies with richest globular cluster systems

Lists of galaxy agglomerations

List of galaxy groups and clusters This article lists some galaxy groups and galaxy clusters. Defining the limits of galaxy clusters is imprecise as many clusters are still forming. In particular, clusters close to the Milky Way tend to be classified as galaxy clusters even wh ...

* List of galaxy superclusters * List of filaments of galaxies

Lists of galaxies

Lists of galaxy agglomerations

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