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BY: Gracia & Kathleen 6B
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* Galaxy is the result of more than billions of
star combining themselves into shapes that is
now known as galaxy. It is a collection of stars,
gas, and dust combine together because of
gravity.
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* The name Milky Way galaxy came from the name milky, which
means the glowing band in the night sky. Milky way galaxy is he
galaxy that belongs to our solar system. It is a barred spiral galaxy,
100,000 – 120,000 light years in the diameter(1 light years is about
9.5x1015 meters) and it consist of 200 – 400 billions of stars. Our
solar system is located in just a very small parts of the this galaxy.
Milky way galaxy is is a part/ member of the local galaxies. This
galaxy doesn’t have a really strong a big gravity and magnet,
because the stars only have really thin/ small gravity that is loses
from other celestial objects. As a whole, this galaxy is moving 552
to 630 km per second. Milky way is special of it’s darkness and
could be the most heaviest galaxy in the galaxy neighborhood.
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* Andromeda is the largest galaxy. It contains about 30 smaller
galaxies. Although it is the largest galaxy, it many not be the
heaviest and darkest of all galaxy in the galaxy neighborhood. it
many not be the most massive one. It is also the nearest galaxy to
our galaxy, but overall it is not the nearest. It is a spiral galaxy. The
Andromeda galaxy is about 2.5 – 2.9 million light years(2.4x1019 )
from our solar system, It is also known as Messier 31 or NGC 224. It
gets its name from the area of sky in which it appears for the first
time before it is known and also it gets its name from Princess
Andromeda. It consist of 1 trillion stars.
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* Sunflower galaxy is a spiral galaxy. It is also known as
the Messier 63. It is about 25-37 millions light years
distant in the loyal constellation. It has a bright
yellowish core and sweeping blue spiral arms and
dotted with pink star. The Sunflower galaxy was
discovered by Pierre Mechain on June 14, 1779.
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Spiral Galaxy
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* Spiral galaxy is a kind of galaxy. It is shaped
like a giant wheel, and has curved arms coming
out of the center. Some of the examples are
Milky way galaxy, and other spiral galaxies.
Irregular Galaxy
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* Irregular galaxy is an unusual shape of the
galaxy. It’s shape is not a regular shape.
Irregular galaxies also have and consist lots of
dust and gas.
Elliptical Galaxy
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* Elliptical galaxy is The largest type of galaxy.
They can be as large as 18 million light-years
from end to end.
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* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milky_Way (18 September 2012) “Milky Way
Galaxy” Milky Way – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
* http://www.google.co.id/search?num=10&hl=en&site=imghp&tbm=isch&sou
rce=hp&biw=1236&bih=639&q=milky+way+galaxy&oq=milky+way+galaxy&gs
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..1ac.1.uTfSJ2M-79s (18 September 2012) Milky way galaxy
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andromeda_Galaxy ( 17 September 2012 ) “
Andromeda Galaxy”
* http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/andromeda.htm ( 19 September 2012
) “ Andromeda Galaxy”
* http://library.thinkquest.org/J002231F/Galaxies/typesofgalaxies.htm ( 19
September 2012 ) “ Types of Galaxy in space”
* http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/spitzer/multimedia/m63-irac.html (
18 September 2012 ) “ NASA – Spitzer’s Sunflower Galaxy”
* http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Sunflower_Galaxy ( 18
September 2012 ) “ Sunflower Galaxy: Facts, Discussion Forum, and
Encyclopedia Article”
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irregular_galaxy ( 19 September 2012 )
“Irregular Galaxy – Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia”