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The Sculptor Galaxy (NGC 253) is a disk galaxy.
A disc galaxy (or disk galaxy) is a galaxy characterized by a galactic disc. This is a flattened circular volume of stars that are mainly orbiting the galactic core in the same plane.[1] These galaxies may or may not include a central non-disc-like region (a galactic bulge).[2] They will typically have an orbiting mass of gas and dust in the same plane as the stars. Interactions with other nearby galaxies can perturb and stretch the galactic disk.
A discgalaxy (or disk galaxy) is a galaxy characterized by a galactic disc. This is a flattened circular volume of stars that are mainly orbiting the...
galactic disc (or galactic disk) is a component of discgalaxies, such as spiral galaxies, lenticular galaxies, and the Milky Way. Galactic discs consist...
globular clusters. Spiral galaxies are named by their spiral structures that extend from the center into the galactic disc. The spiral arms are sites...
rotation curve of a discgalaxy (also called a velocity curve) is a plot of the orbital speeds of visible stars or gas in that galaxy versus their radial...
a heavy disc Intervertebral disc, a cartilage between vertebrae Disk (functional analysis), a subset of a vector space Disc (galaxy), a disc-shaped group...
Galaxy mergers can occur when two (or more) galaxies collide. They are the most violent type of galaxy interaction. The gravitational interactions between...
schemes. It contains a large-scale disc but does not have large-scale spiral arms. Lenticular galaxies are discgalaxies that have used up or lost most of...
Interacting galaxies (colliding galaxies) are galaxies whose gravitational fields result in a disturbance of one another. An example of a minor interaction...
The Andromeda Galaxy is a barred spiral galaxy and is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way. It was originally named the Andromeda Nebula and is cataloged...
These galaxies have supermassive black holes at their centers which are surrounded by accretion discs of in-falling material. The accretion discs are believed...
seeding and growth of massive black holes. Discgalaxy – Type of galactic form Spiral galaxy – Class of galaxy that has spiral structures extending from...
body of the galaxy is clearest in spiral galaxies, where the spherical shape of the halo contrasts with the flat disc. In an elliptical galaxy, there is...
A ring galaxy is a galaxy with a circle-like appearance. Hoag's Object, discovered by Arthur Hoag in 1950, is an example of a ring galaxy. The ring contains...
A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek...
The Phoenix Cluster (SPT-CL J2344-4243) is a massive, Abell class type I galaxy cluster located at its namesake, southern constellation of Phoenix. It was...
An active galactic nucleus (AGN) is a compact region at the center of a galaxy that emits a significant amount of energy across the electromagnetic spectrum...
The Milky Way is the galaxy that includes the Solar System, with the name describing the galaxy's appearance from Earth: a hazy band of light seen in the...
first galaxies, the way galaxies change over time, and the processes that have generated the variety of structures observed in nearby galaxies. Galaxy formation...
including interaction with other galaxies, which may lead to a merger. Discgalaxies encompass lenticular and spiral galaxies with features, such as spiral...
A spiral galaxy is a type of galaxy characterized by a central bulge of old Population II stars surrounded by a rotating disc of younger Population I stars...
satellite galaxy is a smaller companion galaxy that travels on bound orbits within the gravitational potential of a more massive and luminous host galaxy (also...
Galaxy Zoo is a crowdsourced astronomy project which invites people to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies. It is an...
An ultra diffuse galaxy (UDG), or Dark galaxy, is an extremely low luminosity galaxy, the first example of which was discovered in the nearby Virgo Cluster...
following is a list of notable galaxies. There are about 51 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order...
Galaxy of Terror is a 1981 American science fiction horror film produced by Roger Corman through New World Pictures and directed by Bruce D. Clark. It...
targets Discgalaxy – Type of galactic form Spiral arm – Spiral-shaped regions of enhanced brightness within the galactic disc in spiral galaxies Galactic...
feature of spiral galaxies. They manifest as spiral-shaped regions of enhanced brightness within the galactic disc. Typically, spiral galaxies exhibit two or...
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