What are some Galaxy names?

How many galaxies have we named?

Researchers dubbed this the eXtreme Deep Field. All in all, Hubble reveals an estimated 100 billion galaxies in the universe or so, but this number is likely to increase to about 200 billion as telescope technology in space improves, Livio told Space.com.

Which is the most unique galaxy?

What is the beautiful galaxy?

NGC 2336 is the quintessential galaxy — big, beautiful, and blue — and it is captured here by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.

What is the smallest galaxy?

Scientists at the University of California at Irvine have discovered a galaxy so small that it barely even qualifies as a galaxy. Deemed "Segue 2," the dwarf galaxy only contains about 1,000 stars and is the least massive galaxy in the known universe, reports Phys.org.

Top 5 most beautiful and well known Galaxies in the Universe

What are the 4 types of galaxy?

Galaxies 101

Scientists have been able to segment galaxies into 4 main types: spiral, elliptical, peculiar, and irregular.

What is the largest galaxy?

The biggest known galaxy, first described in a 1990 study from the journal Science (opens in new tab), is IC 1101, which stretches as wide as 4 million light-years across, according to NASA (opens in new tab). Galaxies are often bound to each other gravitationally in groups that are called galaxy clusters.

What galaxy is Earth on?

We live on a planet called Earth that is part of our solar system. But where is our solar system? It's a small part of the Milky Way Galaxy. A galaxy is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems.

What is my galaxy name?

Astronomy > The Milky Way Galaxy. Did you know that our star, the Sun, is just one of hundreds of billions of stars swirling within an enormous cosmic place called the Milky Way Galaxy? The Milky Way is a huge collection of stars, dust and gas.

What are the top 3 galaxies?

What can I name my planet?

How do you make a galaxy name?

Unfortunately, no. The official names for astronomical objects are maintained by the International Astronomical Union. Just how you can't officially name a star after yourself, you can't name a galaxy either. We have written many articles about galaxies for Universe Today.

What is the oldest galaxy?

If the data is confirmed by future observations, HD1 would supplant one called GN-z11 as the earliest-known galaxy by about 100 million years. HD1 would be considered the earliest and furthest known astronomical entity.

What is our closest galaxy?

Distance Information

The closest known galaxy to us is the Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, at 236,000,000,000,000,000 km (25,000 light years) from the Sun. The Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy is the next closest , at 662,000,000,000,000,000 km (70,000 light years) from the Sun.

What is bigger than a galaxy?

From largest to smallest they are: Universe, galaxy, solar system, star, planet, moon and asteroid.

What is the youngest galaxy?

GN-z11 is the youngest and most distant galaxy scientists have observed. This video zooms to its location, some 32 billion light-years away. Right click images to download them if they automatically display in your browser.

What is another galaxy?

The Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group, which, in addition to the Milky Way, also contains the Triangulum Galaxy and about 30 other smaller galaxies. Both the Milky Way and the Andromeda galaxies lay claim to about a dozen satellite galaxies.

How many galaxy do we have?

If we made the most straightforward estimate using today's best technology, we'd state there are 170 billion galaxies in our Universe. But we know more than that, and our modern estimate is even grander: two trillion galaxies.

How big are black holes?

Stellar black holes, the most common, have a mass 20 times the size of the sun but are condensed in a 10-mile diameter sphere. Finally, supermassive black holes have masses of more than one million suns compressed into a sphere as giant as the solar system.

What is the biggest star?

The largest known star in the universe, UY Scuti is a variable hypergiant with a radius around 1,700 times larger than the radius of the sun. To put that in perspective, the volume of almost 5 billion suns could fit inside a sphere the size of UY Scuti.