Monday, 6 July 2015

Galaxies

A hundred billion galaxies exist in the universe.each consist of a vast collection of stars,gas and Dusts.They started Life Thousand years ago,slowly forming into distinctive shapes.Each galaxy can contain billion of stars.gravity keep the stars together and keeps the galaxies in the Cluster.


Types of galaxies
There are three main types of galaxies: Elliptical, Spiral, and Irregular. Two of these three types are further divided and classified into a system that is now known the  tuning fork diagram. When Hubble first created this diagram, he believed that this was an evolutionary sequence as well as a classification
                                      (1)Eliptical
                                      (2)Spiral (2.1)Barred Spiral
                                      (3)Irregular 



Active Galaxies
Active galaxies are galaxies which have a small core of emission embedded in an otherwise typical galaxy. This core may be highly variable and very bright compared to the rest of the galaxy. Models of active galaxies concentrate on the possibility of a supermassive black hole which lies at the center of the galaxy.

Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. Its name "milky" is derived from its appearance as a dim glowing band arching across the night sky whose individual stars cannot be distinguished by the naked eye.

Galaxy clusters
A galaxy cluster or cluster of galaxies is a structure that consists of anywhere from hundreds to thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity.

                                                   Edwin Hubble

Edwin Powell Hubble (November 20, 1889 – September 28, 1953) was an American astronomer who played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one of the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century. Hubble is known for showing that the recessional velocity of a galaxy increases with its distance from the earth, implying the universe is expanding,]known as "Hubble's law" although this relation had been discovered previously by Georges LemaĆ®tre, who published his work in a less visible journal.

       


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