Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies information

The Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies (MCG) or Morfologiceskij Katalog Galaktik, is a Russian catalogue of 30,642 galaxies compiled by Boris Vorontsov-Velyaminov...

Galaxy morphological classification is a system used by astronomers to divide galaxies into groups based on their visual appearance. There are several...

systematic catalogues of galaxies were made in the 1960s, with the Catalogue of Galaxies and Clusters of Galaxies listing 29,418 galaxies and galaxy clusters...

eventually expanded into HyperLEDA, a database of a few million galaxies. Galaxies in the original PGC catalogue are numbered with their original PGC number...

centres of galaxies. Galaxies are categorized according to their visual morphology as elliptical, spiral, or irregular. The Milky Way is an example of a spiral...

Database Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies Multiwavelength Atlas of Galaxies Principal Galaxies Catalogue Shapley-Ames Catalog Uppsala General Catalogue...

The Hubble sequence is a morphological classification scheme for galaxies published by Edwin Hubble in 1926. It is often colloquially known as the Hubble...

Catalog MCG — Morphological Catalogue of Galaxies MCW — Morgan, Code, and Whitford Me — Merrill (planetary nebulae) Mel — Melotte Catalogue of open star clusters...

member of the Local Group of galaxies, behind the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way. The galaxy is the second-smallest spiral galaxy in the Local Group after...

galaxies are, together with lenticular galaxies (S0) with their large-scale disks, and ES galaxies with their intermediate scale disks, a subset of the...

the Andromeda Galaxy has smaller satellite galaxies, consisting of over 20 known dwarf galaxies. The Andromeda Galaxy's dwarf galaxy population is very...

Spiral galaxies form a class of galaxy originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae and, as such, form part of the Hubble...

NGC 1 is an intermediate spiral galaxy of the morphological type Sbc, located in the constellation of Pegasus. It was discovered on 30 September 1861...

of them are drawn together in groups and clusters, with groups containing up to some dozens of galaxies and clusters up to several thousand galaxies....

April 15, 1779 and is one of four barred spiral galaxies that appear in Messier's catalogue. M58 is one of the brightest galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. From...

S2CID 18913331. de Vaucouleurs, G.; et al. (1991), Third reference catalogue of bright galaxies, 9, New York: Springer-Verlag. Tully, R. Brent; et al. (August...

(1968), Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies, vol. 6, California Institute of Technology, Bibcode:1968cgcg.bookR....Z Galaxies in the original...

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

Galaxy Zoo is a crowdsourced astronomy project which invites people to assist in the morphological classification of large numbers of galaxies. It is an...

in the middle of a galaxy cluster, although other galaxies at higher redshifts have a higher starburst rate . Observations by a variety of telescopes including...

supergiant elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo that contains several trillion stars. One of the largest and most massive galaxies in the local universe...

Galaxy compose one of the most noted interacting galaxy pairs in astronomy. The two galaxies are listed in the Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies as one of several...

absorption. The galaxy's strange morphology is generally recognized as the result of a merger between two smaller galaxies. The bulge of this galaxy is composed...