Astro-Nomie-Physique

Elliptical galaxies juillet 17, 2009

Elliptical galaxies are different to spiral galaxies in how elliptical they look, they offer less variety in appearance and more in size, there is about a trillion or more stars, are ellipticals in the universe’s biggest galaxies

The massive elliptical galaxy NGC 4881 appears to be close to a sphere, a large of globular star clusters appear as points of light surrounding the galaxy,this galaxy is far from the Earth by hundreds of millions of light-years

The stretched elliptical galaxy NGC 1132, looks like if it is elongated, astronomers suspect that many giant ellipticals including NGC 1132, grew by swallowing a lot of smaller galaxies!!

NGC 5128 is not boring like many elliptical galaxies, also known as Centaurus A, far from Earth just by 10 million light-years, and appear brilliant with its bright colors; most interesting detail is the dust curved band