The Atlas3D results suggest that this tuning fork should be replaced with a 'comb-like' diagram where elliptical galaxies are parallel to spirals and linked to them along the teeth of the comb ...

This is called the “tuning fork diagram,” and it shows how spiral galaxy structures differ from elliptical. There’s even a branch of spirals that have a central bar — that’s the bottom ...

Then the galaxy is dominated by the stellar bulge and becomes an elliptical or lenticular galaxy. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to ...

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image offers us the chance to see a distant galaxy now some 19.5 billion light-years from Earth (but appearing as it did around 11 billion years ago, when the ...

"This can change, and generally reduces the amount of new stars that the new galaxy can grow after the merger." In turn, that makes the new galaxy even more elliptical.

What it is: The galaxy NGC 4694, a member of the Virgo galaxy cluster Where it is: 54 million light-years from Earth, in the constellation Virgo When it was shared: Sept. 30, 2024 Why it's so ...