Other galaxies

In this image, NCG 5728 appears to be an elegant, luminous, barred spiral galaxy. What this image doesn’t show, is that NGC 5728 is also a monumentally energetic type of galaxy, known as a Seyfert galaxy.

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Photos of colliding galaxies show the chaotic, beautiful process of galactic mergers.

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Surprisingly, over the course of most of humanity's existence, we had no idea that other galaxies even existed. All we could see was our own little corner of the universe. It wasn't until the early 1900's that the nature of the so-called "Andromeda nebula" was discerned. Edwin Hubble settled the galaxy vs. nebula debate in 1925, […]

Dr Brent Tully from the University of Hawaii in Honolulu has begun mapping out an even greater concentration of galaxies, known as the Shapley Supercluster.

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