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Luminosity high enough to be a LIRG requires a star formation rate of at least 18 M☉ yr. Ultra-luminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) are at least ten times more luminous still and form stars at rates >180 M☉ yr. Many LIRGs also emit radiation from an AGN. Infrared galaxies emit more energy in the infrared than all other wavelengths combined, with peak emission typically at wavelengths of 60 to 100 microns. LIRGs are believed to be created from the strong interaction and merger of spiral galaxies. While uncommon in the local universe, LIRGs and ULIRGS were more prevalent when the universe was younger.
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Gathering the overall luminous flux of the galaxy has been employed by at least four methods: the first being a circular aperture extending 7 arcseconds from the center, an isophote at 20 mag/arcsec, a "total" aperture defined by the radial light distribution that covers the supposed extent of the galaxy, and the Kron aperture (defined as 2.5 times the first-moment radius, an integration of the flux of the "total" aperture). 1146: 13466: 13241: 2279: 2215:, with the method causing a magnitude of error (upwards to 10%) of the values than using isophotal diameter. The use of Petrosian magnitudes also have the disadvantage of missing most of the light outside the Petrosian aperture, which is defined relative to the galaxy's overall brightness profile, especially for elliptical galaxies, with higher signal-to-noise ratios on higher distances and redshifts. A correction for this method has been issued by Graham 1633: 2030:), which defines the brightness depth of the isophote. To illustrate how this unit works, a typical galaxy has a brightness flux of 18 mag/arcsec at its central region. This brightness is equivalent to the light of an 18th magnitude hypothetical point object (like a star) being spread out evenly in a one square arcsecond area of the sky. The isophotal diameter is typically defined as the region enclosing all the light down to 25 mag/arcsec in the blue 13253: 907: 3018: 1422:". As stars move through an arm, the space velocity of each stellar system is modified by the gravitational force of the higher density. (The velocity returns to normal after the stars depart on the other side of the arm.) This effect is akin to a "wave" of slowdowns moving along a highway full of moving cars. The arms are visible because the high density facilitates star formation, and therefore they harbor many bright and young stars. 13516: 1426: 2184:, it is necessary that the overall brightness flux galaxy should be captured, with a method employed by Bershady in 2000 suggesting to measure twice the size where the brightness flux of an arbitrarily chosen radius, defined as the local flux, divided by the overall average flux equals to 0.2. Using half-light radius allows a rough estimate of a galaxy's size, but is not particularly helpful in determining its morphology. 633: 2305:). Associations of galaxies can overcome this expansion on a local scale through their mutual gravitational attraction. These associations formed early, as clumps of dark matter pulled their respective galaxies together. Nearby groups later merged to form larger-scale clusters. This ongoing merging process, as well as an influx of infalling gas, heats the intergalactic gas in a cluster to very high temperatures of 30–100 2738: 1652:, and may cause some exchange of gas and dust. Collisions occur when two galaxies pass directly through each other and have sufficient relative momentum not to merge. The stars of interacting galaxies usually do not collide, but the gas and dust within the two forms interacts, sometimes triggering star formation. A collision can severely distort the galaxies' shapes, forming bars, rings or tail-like structures. 770: 13540: 3043: 13492: 3071: 13528: 3057: 2684: 2558:, appeared within them. These were composed of primordial gas, almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. Emission from the first stars heats the remaining gas helping to trigger additional star formation; the ultraviolet light emission from the first generation of stars re-ionized the surrounding neutral hydrogen in expanding spheres eventually reaching the entire universe, an event called 13504: 3085: 1829: 2783:, and—depending upon the lateral movements—the two might collide in about five to six billion years. Although the Milky Way has never collided with a galaxy as large as Andromeda before, it has collided and merged with other galaxies in the past. Cosmological simulations indicate that, 11 billion years ago, it merged with a particularly large galaxy that has been labeled the 1701:. If they continue to do so, they would consume their reserve of gas in a time span less than the galaxy's lifespan. Hence starburst activity usually lasts only about ten million years, a relatively brief period in a galaxy's history. Starburst galaxies were more common during the universe's early history, but still contribute an estimated 15% to total star production. 2001:(also called "metric diameter"). This type of measurement is subject to two significant issues, namely that the estimated distance to the galaxy must be corrected for the redshift-related space expansion and that collections of angular-diameter data are subject to selection bias as more distant observations preferentially select the most luminous objects. 2298:. Solitary galaxies that have not significantly interacted with other galaxies of comparable mass in the past few billion years are relatively scarce. Only about 5% of the galaxies surveyed are isolated in this sense. However, they may have interacted and even merged with other galaxies in the past, and may still be orbited by smaller satellite galaxies. 2384:, a relatively small group of galaxies that has a diameter of approximately one megaparsec. The Milky Way and the Andromeda Galaxy are the two brightest galaxies within the group; many of the other member galaxies are dwarf companions of these two. The Local Group itself is a part of a cloud-like structure within the 2452:ÎŒG), while gas-rich galaxies with high star-formation rates, like M 51, M 83 and NGC 6946, have 15 ÎŒG on average. In prominent spiral arms, the field strength can be up to 25 ÎŒG, in regions where cold gas and dust are also concentrated. The strongest total equipartition fields (50–100 ÎŒG) were found in 1278:
The formation of these cD galaxies remains an active area of research, but the leading model is that they are the result of the mergers of smaller galaxies in the environments of dense clusters, or even those outside of clusters with random overdensities. These processes are the mechanisms that drive
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and constitute the largest and most luminous galaxies known. These galaxies feature a central elliptical nucleus with an extensive, faint halo of stars extending to megaparsec scales. The profile of their surface brightnesses as a function of their radius (or distance from their cores) falls off more
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can observe highly energetic galactic phenomena. Ultraviolet flares are sometimes observed when a star in a distant galaxy is torn apart from the tidal forces of a nearby black hole. The distribution of hot gas in galactic clusters can be mapped by X-rays. The existence of supermassive black holes at
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Zakamska, Nadia L.; Strauss, Michael A.; Krolik, Julian H.; Collinge, Matthew J.; Hall, Patrick B.; Hao, Lei; Heckman, Timothy M.; Ivezi, eljko; Richards, Gordon T.; Schlegel, David J.; Schneider, Donald P.; Strateva, Iskra; Vanden Berk, Daniel E.; Anderson, Scott F.; Brinkmann, Jon (November 2003).
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The evolution of galaxies can be significantly affected by interactions and collisions. Mergers of galaxies were common during the early epoch, and the majority of galaxies were peculiar in morphology. Given the distances between the stars, the great majority of stellar systems in colliding galaxies
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of their own. A galaxy's magnetic field influences its dynamics in multiple ways, including affecting the formation of spiral arms and transporting angular momentum in gas clouds. The latter effect is particularly important, as it is a necessary factor for the gravitational collapse of those clouds,
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Galaxies do not have a definite boundary by their nature, and are characterized by a gradually decreasing stellar density as a function of increasing distance from their center, making measurements of their true extents difficult. Nevertheless, astronomers over the past few decades have made several
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At the extreme of interactions are galactic mergers, where the galaxies' relative momentums are insufficient to allow them to pass through each other. Instead, they gradually merge to form a single, larger galaxy. Mergers can result in significant changes to the galaxies' original morphology. If one
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As gas falls in to the gravity of the dark matter halos, its pressure and temperature rise. To condense further, the gas must radiate energy. This process was slow in the early universe dominated by hydrogen atoms and molecules which are inefficient radiators compared to heavier elements. As clumps
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Quasars are the most energetic and distant members of active galactic nuclei. Extremely luminous, they were first identified as high redshift sources of electromagnetic energy, including radio waves and visible light, that appeared more similar to stars than to extended sources similar to galaxies.
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Luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) are galaxies with luminosities—the measurement of electromagnetic power output—above 10 L☉ (solar luminosities). In most cases, most of their energy comes from large numbers of young stars which heat surrounding dust, which reradiates the energy in the infrared.
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Seyfert galaxies are one of the two largest groups of active galaxies, along with quasars. They have quasar-like nuclei (very luminous, distant and bright sources of electromagnetic radiation) with very high surface brightnesses; but unlike quasars, their host galaxies are clearly detectable. Seen
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A shell galaxy is a type of elliptical galaxy where the stars in its halo are arranged in concentric shells. About one-tenth of elliptical galaxies have a shell-like structure, which has never been observed in spiral galaxies. These structures are thought to develop when a larger galaxy absorbs a
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Theoretical models for early galaxy formation have been verified and informed by a large number and variety of sophisticated astronomical observations. The photometric observations generally need spectroscopic confirmation due the large number mechanisms that can introduce systematic errors. For
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as an adaptation from the previously used methods of isophotal measurement. Since 2MASS operates in the near infrared, which has the advantage of being able to recognize dimmer, cooler, and older stars, it has a different form of approach compared to other methods that normally use B-filter. The
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or "ultra diffuse" galaxy is an extremely-low-luminosity galaxy. It may be the same size as the Milky Way, but have a visible star count only one percent of the Milky Way's. Multiple mechanisms for producing this type of galaxy have been proposed, and it is possible that different dark galaxies
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Arrabal Haro, Pablo; Dickinson, Mark; Finkelstein, Steven L.; Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S.; Donnan, Callum T.; Burgarella, Denis; Carnall, Adam C.; Cullen, Fergus; Dunlop, James S.; FernĂĄndez, Vital; Fujimoto, Seiji; Jung, Intae; Krips, Melanie; Larson, Rebecca L.; Papovich, Casey (October 26, 2023).
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of interstellar hydrogen in their spiral arms. Elliptical galaxies are largely devoid of this gas, and so form few new stars. The supply of star-forming material is finite; once stars have converted the available supply of hydrogen into heavier elements, new star formation will come to an end.
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Recently, researchers described galaxies called super-luminous spirals. They are very large with an upward diameter of 437,000 light-years (compared to the Milky Way's 87,400 light-year diameter). With a mass of 340 billion solar masses, they generate a significant amount of ultraviolet and
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in near- and mid-infrared light. Older stars appear blue here, and are clustered at the galaxies’ cores. Glowing dust, showing where it exists around and between stars – appearing in shades of red and orange. Stars that haven't yet fully formed and are encased in gas and dust appear bright
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Such large-scale interactions are rare. As time passes, mergers of two systems of equal size become less common. Most bright galaxies have remained fundamentally unchanged for the last few billion years, and the net rate of star formation probably also peaked about ten billion years ago.
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the formation of fossil groups or fossil clusters, where a large, relatively isolated, supergiant elliptical resides in the middle of the cluster and are surrounded by an extensive cloud of X-rays as the residue of these galactic collisions. Another older model posits the phenomenon of
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Pandya, Viraj; Romanowsky, Aaron J.; Laine, Seppo; Brodie, Jean P.; Johnson, Benjamin D.; Glaccum, William; Villaume, Alexa; Cuillandre, Jean-Charles; Gwyn, Stephen; Krick, Jessica; Lasker, Ronald; MartĂ­n-Navarro, Ignacio; Martinez-Delgado, David; van Dokkum, Pieter (May 1, 2018).
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The current era of star formation is expected to continue for up to one hundred billion years, and then the "stellar age" will wind down after about ten trillion to one hundred trillion years (10–10 years), as the smallest, longest-lived stars in the visible universe, tiny
486:(or "M109") is a spiral galaxy having the number 109 in the catalogue of Messier. It also has the designations NGC 3992, UGC 6937, CGCG 269–023, MCG +09-20-044, and PGC 37617 (or LEDA 37617), among others. Millions of fainter galaxies are known by their identifiers in 7660:
Oei, Martijn S. S. L.; van Weeren, Reinout J.; Hardcastle, Martin J.; Botteon, Andrea; Shimwell, Tim W.; Dabhade, Pratik; Gast, Aivin R. D. J. G. I. B.; Röttgering, Huub J. A.; BrĂŒggen, Marcus; Tasse, Cyril; Williams, Wendy L.; Shulevski, Aleksandar (April 1, 2022).
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speculated that there might be other galaxies outside that were formed into galactic clusters that were minuscule parts of the universe that extended far beyond what could be seen. These views "are remarkably close to the present-day views of the cosmos." In 1745,
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Rotation curve of spiral galaxy Messier 33 (yellow and blue points with error bars), and a predicted one from distribution of the visible matter (gray line). The discrepancy between the two curves can be accounted for by adding a dark matter halo surrounding the
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Star formation rates in galaxies depend upon their local environment. Isolated 'void' galaxies have highest rate per stellar mass, with 'field' galaxies associated with spiral galaxies having lower rates and galaxies in dense cluster having the lowest rates.
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Bellocchi, E.; Pereira-Santaella, M.; Colina, L.; Labiano, A.; SĂĄnchez-GarcĂ­a, M.; Alonso-Herrero, A.; Arribas, S.; GarcĂ­a-Burillo, S.; Villar-MartĂ­n, M.; Rigopoulou, D.; Valentino, F.; Puglisi, A.; DĂ­az-Santos, T.; Cazzoli, S.; Usero, A. (August 2022).
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Despite the prominence of large elliptical and spiral galaxies, most galaxies are dwarf galaxies. They are relatively small when compared with other galactic formations, being about one hundredth the size of the Milky Way, with only a few billion stars.
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form. The creation of a supermassive black hole appears to play a key role in actively regulating the growth of galaxies by limiting the total amount of additional matter added. During this early epoch, galaxies undergo a major burst of star formation.
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McDonald, M.; McNamara, B. R.; Voit, G. M.; Bayliss, M.; Benson, B. A.; Brodwin, M.; Canning, R. E. A.; Florian, M. K.; Garmire, G. P.; Gaspari, M.; Gladders, M. D.; Hlavacek-Larrondo, J.; Kara, E.; Reichardt, C. L.; Russell, H. R. (November 1, 2019).
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smaller companion galaxy—that as the two galaxy centers approach, they start to oscillate around a center point, and the oscillation creates gravitational ripples forming the shells of stars, similar to ripples spreading on water. For example, galaxy
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Once stars begin to form, emit radiation, and in some cases explode, the process of galaxy formation becomes very complex, involving interactions between the forces of gravity, radiation, and thermal energy. Many details are still poorly understood.
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Variations of this method exist. In particular, in the ESO-Uppsala Catalogue of Galaxies values of 50%, 70%, and 90% of the total blue light (the light detected through a B-band specific filter) had been used to calculate a galaxy's diameter.
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in 1948. The choice of using 50% was arbitrary, but proved to be useful in further works by R. A. Fish in 1963, where he established a luminosity concentration law that relates the brightnesses of elliptical galaxies and their respective
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Many dwarf galaxies may orbit a single larger galaxy; the Milky Way has at least a dozen such satellites, with an estimated 300–500 yet to be discovered. Most of the information we have about dwarf galaxies come from observations of the
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that interact powerfully with the surrounding gas. These outbursts trigger a chain reaction of star-building that spreads throughout the gaseous region. Only when the available gas is nearly consumed or dispersed does the activity end.
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that are orbiting the common center of gravity in random directions. The stars contain low abundances of heavy elements because star formation ceases after the initial burst. In this sense they have some similarity to the much smaller
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Graham, Alister W.; Driver, Simon P.; Petrosian, Vahe; Conselice, Christopher J.; Bershady, Matthew A.; Crawford, Steven M.; Goto, Tomotsugu (2005). "Total Galaxy Magnitudes and Effective Radii from Petrosian Magnitudes and Radii".
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through a telescope, a Seyfert galaxy appears like an ordinary galaxy with a bright star superimposed atop the core. Seyfert galaxies are divided into two principal subtypes based on the frequencies observed in their spectra.
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Petrosian magnitudes have the advantage of being redshift and distance independent, allowing the measurement of the galaxy's apparent size since the Petrosian radius is defined in terms of the galaxy's overall luminous flux.
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Some observable galaxies are classified as "active" if they contain an active galactic nucleus (AGN). A significant portion of the galaxy's total energy output is emitted by the active nucleus instead of its stars, dust and
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This idea was entertained in the heyday of the cooling-flow problem, when we observed large amounts of X-ray-emitting, hot gas in clusters but could not measure temperature profiles. This possibility is now regarded as a
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gas; and in 1951 it was observed. This radiation is not affected by dust absorption, and so its Doppler shift can be used to map the motion of the gas in this galaxy. These observations led to the hypothesis of a rotating
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are curves in a diagram - such as a picture of a galaxy - that adjoins points of equal brightnesses, and are useful in defining the extent of the galaxy. The apparent brightness flux of a galaxy is measured in units of
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has a ring-like structure of stars and interstellar medium surrounding a bare core. A ring galaxy is thought to occur when a smaller galaxy passes through the core of a spiral galaxy. Such an event may have affected the
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and thus become immortal. Hera wakes up while breastfeeding and then realises she is nursing an unknown baby: she pushes the baby away, some of her milk spills, and it produces the band of light known as the Milky Way.
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of matter as it falls toward the black hole from the disc. The AGN's luminosity depends on the SMBH's mass and the rate at which matter falls onto it. In about 10% of these galaxies, a diametrically opposed pair of
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that has prominent and well-defined spiral arms. The speed in which a galaxy rotates is thought to correlate with the flatness of the disc as some spiral galaxies have thick bulges, while others are thin and dense.
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will be unaffected. However, gravitational stripping of the interstellar gas and dust that makes up the spiral arms produces a long train of stars known as tidal tails. Examples of these formations can be seen in
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Evidence for individual Population III stars in early galaxies is even more challenging. Even seemingly confirmed spectroscopic evidence may turn out to have other origins. For example, astronomers reported
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galaxy, have a linear, bar-shaped band of stars that extends outward to either side of the core, then merges into the spiral arm structure. In the Hubble classification scheme, these are designated by an
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from relativistic electrons accelerated by supernova. These sources are comparatively short lived, making the radio spectrum from normal radio galaxies an especially good way to study star formation.
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Graham, Alister W.; GuzmĂĄn, Rafael (2003). "HST Photometry of Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies in Coma, and an Explanation for the Alleged Structural Dichotomy between Dwarf and Bright Elliptical Galaxies".
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is an intermediate form that has properties of both elliptical and spiral galaxies. These are categorized as Hubble type S0, and they possess ill-defined spiral arms with an elliptical halo of stars (
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in 1936, there have been attempts to characterize the diameters of galaxies. The earliest efforts were based on the observed angle subtended by the galaxy and its estimated distance, leading to an
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The Hubble classification system rates elliptical galaxies on the basis of their ellipticity, ranging from E0, being nearly spherical, up to E7, which is highly elongated. These galaxies have an
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yielded improved observations. Among other things, its data helped establish that the missing dark matter in this galaxy could not consist solely of inherently faint and small stars. The
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Clusters of galaxies consist of hundreds to thousands of galaxies bound together by gravity. Clusters of galaxies are often dominated by a single giant elliptical galaxy, known as the
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Starburst galaxies are characterized by dusty concentrations of gas and the appearance of newly formed stars, including massive stars that ionize the surrounding clouds to create
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formed by different means. One candidate explanation for the low luminosity is that the galaxy lost its star-forming gas at an early stage, resulting in old stellar populations.
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led to a radically different picture: a flat disk with diameter approximately 70 kiloparsecs and the Sun far from the centre. Both analyses failed to take into account the
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throughout its life. This matter is mostly hydrogen and helium. The cycle of stellar birth and death slowly increases the abundance of heavy elements, eventually allowing the
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Burgarella, D.; Buat, V.; Donas, J.; Milliard, B.; Chapelon, S. (2001). "The ultraviolet visibility and quantitative morphology of galactic disks at low and high redshift".
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Irr-II galaxies do not possess any structure that resembles a Hubble classification, and may have been disrupted. Nearby examples of (dwarf) irregular galaxies include the
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Galaxies come in three main types: ellipticals, spirals, and irregulars. A slightly more extensive description of galaxy types based on their appearance is given by the
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and that predicted by the visible mass of stars and gas. Today, the galaxy rotation problem is thought to be explained by the presence of large quantities of unseen
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made the earliest recorded identification of the Andromeda Galaxy, describing it as a "small cloud". In 964, he probably mentioned the Large Magellanic Cloud in his
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Ho, Luis C.; Filippenko, Alexei V.; Sargent, Wallace L. W. (1997). "A Search for "Dwarf" Seyfert Nuclei. V. Demographics of Nuclear Activity in Nearby Galaxies".
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mass) in the universe. To remain gravitationally bound to such a group, each member galaxy must have a sufficiently low velocity to prevent it from escaping (see
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profile, giving them an elliptical appearance regardless of the viewing angle. Their appearance shows little structure and they typically have relatively little
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The Sidereal Messenger of Galileo Galilei: and a part of the preface to Kepler's Dioptrics containing the original account of Galileo's astronomical discoveries
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of gas aggregate forming rotating disks, temperatures and pressures continue to increase. Some places within the disk reach high enough density to form stars.
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emits radio frequencies from relativistic jets. A unified model of these types of active galaxies explains their differences based on the observer's position.
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Spiral galaxies consist of a rotating disk of stars and interstellar medium, along with a central bulge of generally older stars. Extending outward from the
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Radio galaxies can also be classified as giant radio galaxies (GRGs), whose radio emissions can extend to scales of megaparsecs (3.26 million light-years).
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correctly speculated that the Milky Way was a flattened disk of stars, and that some of the nebulae visible in the night sky might be separate Milky Ways.
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class are higher radio luminosity. The correlation of radio luminosity and structure suggests that the sources in these two types of galaxies may differ.
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containing the 109 brightest celestial objects having nebulous appearance. Subsequently, William Herschel assembled a catalog of 5,000 nebulae. In 1845,
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in 1920 arrived at the picture of a small (diameter about 15 kiloparsecs) ellipsoid galaxy with the Sun close to the center. A different method by
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but on a much larger scale, and that the resulting disk of stars could be seen as a band on the sky from a perspective inside it. In his 1755 treatise,
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is a galaxy with giant regions of radio emission extending well beyond its visible structure. These energetic radio lobes are powered by jets from its
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gave a distance determination that supported the theory that the Andromeda Nebula is indeed a distant extra-galactic object. Using the new 100-inch
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Livingston, John W. (1971). "Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyyah: A Fourteenth Century Defense against Astrological Divination and Alchemical Transmutation".
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On the largest scale, the universe is continually expanding, resulting in an average increase in the separation between individual galaxies (see
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made spectrographic studies of the brightest spiral nebulae to determine their composition. Slipher discovered that the spiral nebulae have high
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is dominated by this cD elliptical galaxy designated Abell 1413 BCG. It has an isophotal diameter of over 800,000 light-years across. Note the
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1138) proposed that it was composed of many stars that almost touched one another, and appeared to be a continuous image due to the effect of
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Many galaxies are thought to contain a supermassive black hole at their center. This includes the Milky Way, whose core region is called the
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the stars are not infinitely dispersed and distributed in a promiscuous manner throughout all the mundane space, without order or design,
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Starbursts are often associated with merging or interacting galaxies. The prototype example of such a starburst-forming interaction is
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with another galaxy. Many barred spiral galaxies are active, possibly as a result of gas being channeled into the core along the arms.
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fainter than those that occurred within this galaxy. As a result, he was able to come up with a distance estimate of 150,000 
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Giving Some Accounts of the Present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours, of the Ingenious, in Many Considerable Parts of the World
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in 1785 by counting the number of stars in different regions of the sky. He produced a diagram of the shape of the galaxy with
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A "normal" radio galaxy do not have a source that is a supermassive black hole or monster neutron star; instead the source is
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is an FR II class low-excitation radio galaxy which has the largest observed radio emission, with lobed structures spanning 5
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Kraan-Korteweg, R. C.; Juraszek, S. (2000). "Mapping the hidden Universe: The galaxy distribution in the Zone of Avoidance".
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galaxy has open, well-defined arms and a small core region. A galaxy with poorly defined arms is sometimes referred to as a
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Mandolesi, Nazzareno; et al. (1986). "Large-scale homogeneity of the Universe measured by the microwave background".
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Phillipps, S.; Drinkwater, M. J.; Gregg, M. D.; Jones, J. B. (2001). "Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster".
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Kennicutt, Robert C. Jr.; Tamblyn, Peter; Congdon, Charles E. (1994). "Past and future star formation in disk galaxies".
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mid-infrared light. They are thought to have an increased star formation rate around 30 times faster than the Milky Way.
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Kovačević, Andjelka B; Yi, Tignfeng; Dai, Xinyu; Yang, Xing; Čvorović-Hajdinjak, Iva; Popović, Luka Č (May 21, 2020).
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galaxy has tightly wound, poorly defined arms and possesses a relatively large core region. At the other extreme, an
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absorb a number of useful portions of the infrared spectrum, so high-altitude or space-based telescopes are used for
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Noguchi, Masafumi (1999). "Early Evolution of Disk Galaxies: Formation of Bulges in Clumpy Young Galactic Disks".
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was able to resolve the outer parts of some spiral nebulae as collections of individual stars and identified some
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image shows (from left) fully mature galaxies, nearly mature galaxies (from five to nine billion years ago), and
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A study of 27 Milky Way neighbors found that in all dwarf galaxies, the central mass is approximately 10 million
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of Jupiter and Mars as evidence of this occurring when two objects were near. In the 14th century, Syrian-born
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contain tens of thousands of galaxies, which are found in clusters, groups and sometimes individually. At the
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stars, AGN, and shocks. Approximately one-third of nearby galaxies are classified as containing LINER nuclei.
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Gerber, R. A.; Lamb, S. A.; Balsara, D. S. (1994). "Ring Galaxy Evolution as a Function of "Intruder" Mass".
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A giant radio galaxy is a special class of objects characterized by the presence of radio lobes generated by
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proposed the Milky Way galaxy was "a myriad of tiny stars packed together in the sphere of the fixed stars."
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is introduced as a conventional way of measuring a galaxy's size based on its apparent surface brightness.
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Firmani, C.; Avila-Reese, Vladimir (2003). "Physical processes behind the morphological Hubble sequence".
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to study it and discovered it was composed of a huge number of faint stars. In 1750, English astronomer
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LĂłpez-Corredoira, M.; et al. (2001). "Searching for the in-plane Galactic bar and ring in DENIS".
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are galactic formations that develop unusual properties due to tidal interactions with other galaxies.
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The first project to describe the shape of the Milky Way and the position of the Sun was undertaken by
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which extends beyond the visible component, as demonstrated by the universal rotation curve concept.
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Gonzalez, Guillermo (1998). Rebolo, Rafael; Martin, Eduardo L.; Osorio, Maria Rosa Zapatero (eds.).
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The Milky Way galaxy and the nearby Andromeda Galaxy are moving toward each other at about 130 
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An Irr-I galaxy has some structure but does not align cleanly with the Hubble classification scheme.
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are relatively bright arms. In the Hubble classification scheme, spiral galaxies are listed as type
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Bell, G. R.; Levine, S. E. (1997). "Mass of the Milky Way and Dwarf Spheroidal Stream Membership".
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First described by Vahe Petrosian in 1976, a modified version of this method has been used by the
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Actual proof of the Milky Way consisting of many stars came in 1610 when the Italian astronomer
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Bahcall, Neta A. (1988). "Large-scale structure in the Universe indicated by galaxy clusters".
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Eskridge, P. B.; Frogel, J. A. (1999). "What is the True Fraction of Barred Spiral Galaxies?".
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galaxy, with a redshift value of 6.60. Subsequent observations found metallic emission lines, O
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and a reduced rate of new star formation. Instead, they are dominated by generally older, more
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of about 70° south it was not visible where he lived. It was not well known to Europeans until
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Pompei, Emanuela; Dahlem, Michael; Iovino, Angela (November 24, 2006). Dahlem, Michael (ed.).
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Comparison of GALWORKS and IRAF's STSDAS Photometry in a Polar Field, WISE Science Data Center
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Interactions between galaxies are relatively frequent, and they can play an important role in
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The standard aperture ellipse (area of detection) is defined by the infrared isophote at the
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In the astronomical literature, the capitalised word "Galaxy" is often used to refer to the
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Advances in astronomy have always been driven by technology. After centuries of success in
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detail of the method used by 2MASS has been described thoroughly in a document by Jarrett
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are galaxies that can not be readily classified into an elliptical or spiral morphology.
1419: 1222: 762:'s view that the bright spots were massive and flattened due to their rotation. In 1750, 718: 196: 177: 81: 12227:. Saas-Fee Advanced Course, Swiss Society for Astrophysics and Astronomy. Vol. 23. 11605: 11555: 11508: 11371: 11328: 11246: 11199: 11120: 11041: 10800: 10748: 10723: 10695: 10656: 10551: 10493: 10431: 10387: 10278: 10224: 10181: 10129: 10069: 10016: 9908: 9879: 9792: 9699: 9621: 9515: 9454: 9342: 9224: 9114: 9031: 8998: 8988: 8902: 8874: 8859: 8843: 8815: 8782: 8637: 8558: 8453: 8292: 8206: 8149: 7976: 7747: 7468: 7224: 7099: 7006: 6855: 6800: 6724: 6591: 6387: 6316: 6283: 6256:"Kinematic constraints on the stellar and dark matter content of spiral and S0 galaxies" 6192: 6138: 6085: 5971: 5910: 5760: 5664: 5601: 5475: 5431: 5302: 5061: 5025: 4985: 4941: 4868: 4832: 4804: 4766: 4537: 4127: 3698: 3568: 3406: 3317: 938:
present in the interstellar medium is opaque to visual light. It is more transparent to
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class have lower radio luminosity and exhibit structures which are more elongated; the
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Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies, and large-scale structure
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The first non-visual study of galaxies, particularly active galaxies, was made using
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Most galaxies are gravitationally bound to a number of other galaxies. These form a
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Current models of the formation of galaxies in the early universe are based on the
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Their luminosity can be 100 times that of the Milky Way. The nearest known quasar,
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implied the entirety of existence. Instead, they became known simply as galaxies.
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A jet of particles is being emitted from the core of the elliptical radio galaxy
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images to estimate that the observable universe contained at least two trillion (
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examined the nebulae catalogued by Herschel and observed the spiral structure of
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Within a billion years of a galaxy's formation, key structures begin to appear.
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During the following two billion years, the accumulated matter settles into a
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Stars are created within galaxies from a reserve of cold gas that forms giant
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of the galaxies is much more massive than the other, the result is known as
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This article is about the astronomical structure. For Earth's galaxy, see
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A few galaxies outside the Milky Way are visible on a dark night to the
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Different components of near-infrared background light detected by the
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A critique of an earlier version of this method has been issued by the
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9314: 8321: 4214: 2278: 1418:. The spiral arms are thought to be areas of high-density matter, or " 833:, was then known. Searching the photographic record, he found 11 more 547:–570 CE) was critical of this view, arguing that if the Milky Way was 347: 37: 12933: 11816: 11772: 11677: 11270:"The Mice (NGC 4676): Colliding Galaxies With Tails of Stars and Gas" 11143: 9916: 4671: 3264: 2819: 2806: 2563: 2551: 2535:, large scale gas clouds that were precursors to the first galaxies. 2445: 2078: 1709: 1640:
are undergoing a collision that will result in their eventual merger.
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In spiral galaxies, the spiral arms do have the shape of approximate
1218: 1030:, hydrogen gas could also be traced in other galaxies. In the 1970s, 1010: 693: 571: 548: 521: 508: 454:. Astronomers work with numbers from certain catalogues, such as the 319: 273: 216: 114: 101: 20: 10987:"Caught in the act; forming galaxies captured in the young Universe" 10956:"Simulations Show How Growing Black Holes Regulate Galaxy Formation" 10233: 10206: 10042:"A giant ring-like structure at 0.78<z<0.86 displayed by GRBs" 7459:. Astrophysics and Space Science Library. Vol. 329. Dordrecht: 5609: 3761:(2014). "Earth's new address: 'Solar System, Milky Way, Laniakea'". 3584:"Disk stars in the Milky Way detected beyond 25 kpc from its center" 3513:"How many galaxies are in the Universe? A lot more than you'd think" 2531:
halos. These primordial structures allowed gasses to condense in to
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Galaxies were initially discovered telescopically and were known as
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galaxy, to distinguish it from the other galaxies in the observable
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Artist's impression of a protocluster forming in the early universe
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Large gravitationally bound system of stars and interstellar matter
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Herschel's diagram of the galaxy appears immediately after p. 266.
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Deep-sky surveys show that galaxies are often found in groups and
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have been used to map the active jets emitted from active nuclei.
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per cubic metre. Most galaxies are gravitationally organised into
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ejects particles from the galaxy core at velocities close to the
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destroys its satellite galaxies and adds their mass to its own.
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region of the World that is continuous with the heavenly motions
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in diameter and approximately 60 million light-years from Earth.
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is estimated to contain 200 billion to two trillion galaxies.
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example, a high redshift (z ~ 16) photometric observation by
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The Milky Way galaxy is a member of an association named the
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Examples of isophotal diameters (25.0 B-mag/arcsec isophote)
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invisible to humans (radio telescopes, infrared cameras, and
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the cores of galaxies was confirmed through X-ray astronomy.
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elaborated on Wright's idea about the Milky Way's structure.
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The space between galaxies is filled with a tenuous gas (the
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The shape of the Milky Way as estimated from star counts by
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incapable of gravitational coalescence on a smaller scale.
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It was from density fluctuations (or 2482: 2341: 2287:is an example of a compact galaxy group. 1827: 1741: 1681: 1631: 1479: 1424: 1395: 1332: 1298: 1275:slowly than their smaller counterparts. 1245: 1144: 995: 768: 631: 403: 125:with less than a thousand stars, to the 12131: 12091: 12055: 11764: 11015: 10912: 10587: 10325: 10033: 9855: 9078: 8832: 8521: 8230: 7956:Peterson, Bradley M. (August 1, 2008). 7330:Department of Astronomy. 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About 300,000 years after the 2004: 1979: 1938:pointed in the direction of Earth. A 1488: 1111:reduced this to roughly 200 billion ( 800:, now known as the Whirlpool Galaxy. 180:. Most galaxies are 1,000 to 100,000 12292:Galaxy Morphology and Classification 12176: 11670: 11267: 10258: 9643:Ponman, Trevor (February 25, 2005). 8980: 8795: 7890:Lochner, Jim. 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(2023). 11710:University of Michigan 11432:10.1093/mnras/staa2452 11137:(September 25, 2012). 9999:Proceedings of Science 9321:Astrophysical Bulletin 8763:De Vaucouleurs, GĂ©rard 8603:University of Maryland 7635:University of Maryland 7359:"Interacting Galaxies" 7328:University of Maryland 5247:Institute of Astronomy 4468:10.1098/rstl.1785.0012 4398:(November 20, 2016) . 2614: 2611:Hubble Space Telescope 2590:emission evidence for 2547: 2488: 2347: 2059:Large Magellanic Cloud 1837: 1750: 1708:. These stars produce 1690: 1641: 1436: 1407: 1342: 1307: 1259: 1177: 1133:Central massive object 1047:Hubble Space Telescope 1002: 781: 750:conjectured that some 706:Small Magellanic Cloud 702:Large Magellanic Cloud 678:Robert Julius Trumpler 641: 596:Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya 431: 368: 355: For hit is whyt. 239:surrounded by immense 127:largest galaxies known 23:. For other uses, see 13566:Concepts in astronomy 13470:Category:Star systems 13343:Dark globular cluster 13187:Galaxy rotation curve 12287:Van den Bergh, Sidney 10888:European Space Agency 10259:Beck, Rainer (2007). 10102:van den Bergh, Sidney 10079:10.1093/mnras/stv1421 9738:European Space Agency 8061:10.1093/mnras/staa737 7965:New Astronomy Reviews 7896:Imagine the Universe! 7862:University of Alabama 7537:University of Alabama 7324:"Galaxy Interactions" 7132:Mateo, Mario (1998). 6874:European Space Agency 6442:Bertin & Lin 1996 6229:European Space Agency 5862:"Elliptical Galaxies" 5547:Imagine the Universe! 4598:Observatoire de Paris 4575:Observatoire de Paris 4430:on November 20, 2016. 4373:on September 24, 2003 4253:English translation: 3799:Burchfield, Robert W. 3361:University of Florida 3100:Bright early galaxies 2954:The Antennae Galaxies 2608: 2545: 2486: 2394:Laniakea Supercluster 2345: 2162:GĂ©rard de Vaucouleurs 1831: 1812:synchrotron radiation 1745: 1685: 1635: 1480:Super-luminous spiral 1428: 1399: 1388:; in contrast to the 1336: 1302: 1256:gravitational lensing 1249: 1148: 1085:Christopher Conselice 999: 969:and 30 GHz. The 772: 737:In 1734, philosopher 714:Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi 635: 460:New General Catalogue 407: 342: 13222:Population III stars 13217:Intergalactic travel 13167:Galactic orientation 13034:Voids and supervoids 12322:Waller, William H.; 12217:; Kron, Richard G.; 11284:on September 7, 2016 11077:Institute of Physics 10997:on November 15, 2013 10861:10.1093/mnras/stx839 10160:Tully, Richard Brent 9655:on February 15, 2009 9464:10.1093/mnras/stt827 9403:10.1093/mnras/stv950 8605:Astronomy Department 8590:Mushotzky, Richard. 7641:on September 1, 2022 7609:. pp. 214–272. 7572:. pp. 142–144. 7533:"Starburst Galaxies" 7463:. pp. 187–194. 7426:"Starburst Galaxies" 7363:Swinburne University 7041:(January 26, 2024). 6941:on February 27, 2012 6931:"Irregular Galaxies" 6910:on September 7, 2006 6472:. 269/270: 427–430. 5866:Leicester University 5522:on November 27, 2012 5136:on December 30, 2006 4904:on December 24, 2013 4291:Robertson, Edmund F. 4153:Robertson, Edmund F. 3110:Galactic orientation 2652:high-velocity clouds 2592:Population III stars 2556:Population III stars 2412:The typical average 2335:, which, over time, 2227:Near-infrared method 2202:de Vaucouleurs's law 1870:gravitational energy 1864:that forms around a 1472:Our own galaxy, the 1440:Barred spiral galaxy 1405:barred spiral galaxy 1329:Barred spiral galaxy 1315:has over 20 shells. 1175:barred spiral galaxy 1157:indicates a type of 1123:Types and morphology 1007:Hendrik van de Hulst 621:forces, akin to the 422:, and 1152+3313 for 237:sheets and filaments 197:intergalactic medium 13401:Stellar association 13212:Intergalactic stars 13101:Large quasar groups 13096:Groups and clusters 12960:Groups and clusters 12819:Lyman-alpha emitter 12711:Interstellar medium 12219:Longair, Malcolm S. 12057:Longair, Malcolm S. 11716:on January 21, 2005 11606:1999ASPC..163..119K 11556:1994ApJ...435...22K 11509:2007MNRAS.378.1550P 11453:Sky & Telescope 11372:2000Sci...287...69B 11329:1999PhR...321....1S 11247:2007SciAm.296b..34C 11238:Scientific American 11200:2005ApJ...624..571R 11121:1998ASPC..134..431G 11042:1999ApJ...514...77N 10934:Scientific American 10801:2015ApJ...808..139S 10724:2023NatAs...7..731B 10657:2023Natur.622..707A 10552:2001PhR...349..125B 10432:2018PhR...780....1D 10388:2003RMxAC..17..107F 10279:2007SchpJ...2.2411B 10225:2014Natur.513...41T 10182:1982ApJ...257..389T 10130:2000PASP..112..529V 10070:2015MNRAS.452.2236B 10026:10.22323/1.233.0078 10017:2014styd.confE..78H 9909:1986Natur.319..751M 9793:1998ApJ...502..141D 9700:2000ApJ...540...45G 9516:2012MNRAS.424.2574W 9455:2013MNRAS.433.1479H 9343:2011AstBu..66....1K 9225:2003AJ....125..525J 9115:2005AJ....130.1535G 9032:1976ApJ...209L...1P 8999:1989spce.book.....L 8903:2000ApJ...529..886C 8860:1968BAICz..19..105S 8816:1963AJ.....68R..72F 8783:1948AnAp...11..247D 8559:2020RNAAS...4..117C 8293:1997ApJ...487..568H 8150:2024NatAs...8..126B 8014:Fraknoi et al. 2023 7977:2008NewAR..52..240P 7837:Fraknoi et al. 2023 7769:Fraknoi et al. 2023 7595:Narlikar, Jayant V. 7593:Kembhavi, Ajit K.; 7469:2005ASSL..329..187K 7432:. August 29, 2006. 7225:2001ApJ...560..201P 7100:2015ApJ...798L..45V 7007:2018ApJ...858...29P 6960:Fraknoi et al. 2023 6856:1994AAS...184.3204G 6801:2016ApJ...817..109O 6725:1997AAS...19110806B 6592:2002MNRAS.337..808K 6388:2014ApJ...784...26O 6284:2009MNRAS.400.1665W 6193:2019ApJ...885...63M 6139:1977MNRAS.180..479F 6086:2015ApJ...807...56B 5972:1987IAUS..127...89T 5911:1964ApJ...140...35M 5840:Fraknoi et al. 2023 5761:2021ApJ...906...77L 5665:2016ApJ...830...83C 5602:2000PASA...17....6K 5476:2000PASP..112..747R 5432:1983SciAm.248f..96R 5423:Scientific American 5343:on January 14, 2012 5333:The Bruce Medalists 5303:2000MNRAS.311..441C 5155:Fraknoi et al. 2023 5088:Rieke, George Henry 5062:1989JRASC..83..351S 5026:1926CMWCI.324....1H 4986:1929ApJ....69..103H 4942:1922ApJ....55..406O 4892:Weaver, Harold. F. 4869:1988PASP..100....6C 4833:1915PA.....23...21S 4805:1913LowOB...2...56S 4767:2012JAHH...15...19S 4717:Scientific American 4538:1999AAS...195.7409T 4289:O'Connor, John J.; 4151:O'Connor, John J.; 4128:2005SPIE.9664E..22B 4119:Proceedings of SPIE 3982:on January 12, 2024 3699:2012ApJ...745..156R 3569:1998Obs...118..201G 3542:Goodwin, Simon P.; 3407:2003AJ....125.2936G 3326:10.1038/nature07222 3318:2008Natur.454.1096S 3302:(7208): 1096–1097. 3150:Outline of galaxies 3049:solar system portal 2727:observable universe 2640:Population II stars 2613:in deep-sky surveys 2572:population II stars 2568:interstellar medium 2192:Petrosian magnitude 2043: 1843:interstellar medium 1412:logarithmic spirals 1250:The galaxy cluster 1223:interstellar matter 1091:, used 20 years of 1015:wavelength of 21 cm 885:galactic morphology 719:Book of Fixed Stars 666:absorption of light 498:Observation history 326:. The English term 178:observable universe 13416:Hypervelocity star 13207:Intergalactic dust 13192:Gravitational lens 13147:Galactic astronomy 13116:Starburst galaxies 12856:blue compact dwarf 12812:Energetic galaxies 12776:BL Lacertae object 11852:Galactic Astronomy 11742:. January 29, 2024 10600:The New York Times 10577:on March 14, 2021. 7599:"Radio Properties" 7403:on August 27, 2016 7050:The New York Times 6430:on March 24, 2021. 6346:Van den Bergh 1998 5939:. February 6, 2017 5705:The New York Times 4789:Slipher, Vesto. M. 4137:10.1117/12.2207764 3870:KonečnĂœ, LubomĂ­r. 3795:Onions, Charles T. 3485:The Jerusalem Post 3063:outer space portal 2615: 2548: 2489: 2454:starburst galaxies 2386:Virgo Supercluster 2355:supercluster scale 2348: 2041: 2011:isophotal diameter 2005:Isophotal diameter 1980:Physical diameters 1838: 1751: 1691: 1650:tidal interactions 1646:galactic evolution 1642: 1628:Interacting galaxy 1572:Blue compact dwarf 1530:Irregular galaxies 1489:Other morphologies 1437: 1432:, an example of a 1408: 1403:, an example of a 1343: 1308: 1260: 1190:starburst galaxies 1178: 1003: 956:infrared astronomy 822:within the "Great 816:Heber Doust Curtis 798:Messier object M51 782: 739:Emanuel Swedenborg 642: 432: 414:. SDSS stands for 360:Geoffrey Chaucer, 229:Virgo Supercluster 92:bound together by 13478: 13477: 13267: 13266: 13227:Galaxy X (galaxy) 13202:Illustris project 13172:Galactic quadrant 12893:Wolf-Rayet galaxy 12883:Green bean galaxy 12878:Hot dust-obscured 12829:Luminous infrared 12593:Elliptical galaxy 12366:on April 30, 2021 12345:978-0-674-01079-6 12302:978-0-521-62335-3 12266:978-0-521-59740-1 12238:978-3-54-058913-6 12224:The Deep Universe 12215:Sandage, Allan R. 12194:978-0-521-35363-2 12149:978-983-52-0157-8 12112:978-1-4008-4612-2 12093:Merritt, David R. 12084:978-3-540-73477-2 12036:978-0-943396-58-3 11999:978-0-521-85793-2 11958:978-1-4020-8322-8 11937:978-1-951693-50-3 11901:978-1-55297-901-3 11862:978-0-691-00402-0 11826:978-0-262-02396-2 11782:978-0-7503-0730-7 11615:978-1-886733-84-8 11586:. 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Archived from 6926: 6920: 6919: 6917: 6915: 6896: 6890: 6889: 6887: 6885: 6866: 6860: 6859: 6837: 6831: 6830: 6812: 6794: 6768: 6762: 6761: 6759: 6757: 6735: 6729: 6728: 6706: 6700: 6699: 6697: 6695: 6675: 6669: 6668: 6642: 6640:astro-ph/0110491 6620: 6614: 6613: 6603: 6585: 6583:astro-ph/0207258 6559: 6553: 6552: 6526: 6524:astro-ph/0206273 6504: 6498: 6497: 6463: 6457: 6451: 6445: 6444:, pp. 65–85 6439: 6433: 6431: 6414: 6408: 6407: 6381: 6355: 6349: 6343: 6337: 6336: 6334: 6332: 6312: 6306: 6305: 6295: 6277: 6268:(4): 1665–1689. 6251: 6245: 6244: 6242: 6240: 6225:"Galactic onion" 6221: 6215: 6214: 6204: 6186: 6159: 6153: 6152: 6150: 6116: 6110: 6109: 6079: 6053: 6047: 6046: 6044: 6034: 6025:(3): 2047–2056. 6008: 6002: 6001: 5955: 5949: 5948: 5946: 5944: 5929: 5923: 5922: 5888: 5882: 5881: 5879: 5877: 5872:on July 29, 2012 5857: 5851: 5837: 5831: 5830: 5828: 5826: 5805: 5799: 5798: 5772: 5754: 5728: 5722: 5721: 5719: 5717: 5701: 5693: 5687: 5686: 5676: 5658: 5636: 5628: 5622: 5621: 5595: 5593:astro-ph/9910572 5573: 5567: 5566: 5564: 5562: 5557:on July 28, 2012 5553:. 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Archived from 4889: 4883: 4882: 4880: 4847:Curtis, Heber D. 4843: 4837: 4836: 4815: 4809: 4808: 4785: 4779: 4778: 4744: 4738: 4737: 4704: 4698: 4697: 4695: 4693: 4653: 4647: 4646: 4644: 4629: 4620: 4614: 4613: 4611: 4609: 4589: 4583: 4582: 4566: 4557: 4551: 4542: 4541: 4519: 4513: 4512:, pp. 16–18 4507: 4501: 4499: 4497: 4495: 4446: 4440: 4431: 4426:. Archived from 4392: 4383: 4382: 4380: 4378: 4369:. Archived from 4358: 4345: 4339: 4333: 4327: 4321: 4320: 4318: 4316: 4311:on March 3, 2016 4307:. Archived from 4286: 4280: 4277: 4275: 4273: 4260:Kepler, Johannes 4256:Galilei, Galileo 4250: 4248: 4246: 4234:Sidereus Nuncius 4229:Galilei, Galileo 4225: 4219: 4218: 4188: 4182: 4179:Heidarzadeh 2008 4176: 4170: 4169: 4148: 4142: 4141: 4139: 4111: 4102: 4096: 4095:, pp. 49–50 4090: 4084: 4083:, pp. 23–25 4081:Heidarzadeh 2008 4078: 4072: 4071: 4069: 4067: 4045: 4034: 4033: 4031: 4029: 3998: 3992: 3991: 3989: 3987: 3978:. Archived from 3966: 3960: 3959: 3957: 3955: 3935: 3929: 3928: 3926: 3924: 3904: 3898: 3897: 3895: 3893: 3888:on July 20, 2006 3887: 3881:. Archived from 3876: 3867: 3861: 3855: 3849: 3848: 3846: 3844: 3822: 3813: 3812: 3791: 3785: 3784: 3755: 3749: 3748: 3746: 3744: 3735:. Archived from 3725: 3719: 3718: 3692: 3669: 3663: 3662: 3660: 3658: 3638: 3632: 3631: 3605: 3579: 3573: 3572: 3552: 3539: 3530: 3529: 3527: 3525: 3508: 3502: 3501: 3499: 3497: 3475: 3469: 3468: 3466: 3464: 3438: 3429: 3426: 3400: 3398:astro-ph/0303391 3391:(6): 2936–2950. 3376: 3374: 3372: 3367:on July 20, 2011 3363:. Archived from 3352: 3346: 3345: 3311: 3283: 3277: 3276: 3274: 3272: 3255: 3249: 3248: 3246: 3244: 3235:. Archived from 3224: 3218: 3212: 3196: 3189: 3183: 3172: 3125:List of galaxies 3093: 3088: 3087: 3079: 3077:astronomy portal 3074: 3073: 3072: 3065: 3060: 3059: 3058: 3051: 3046: 3045: 3044: 3021: 3012: 2864: 2811:molecular clouds 2740: 2717: 2686: 2529:cold dark matter 2451: 2427: 2420:is about 10 ÎŒG ( 2369:, currently the 2285:Seyfert's Sextet 2281: 2173:JosĂ© Luis SĂ©rsic 2152:effective radius 2121:Andromeda Galaxy 2044: 2040: 1999:angular diameter 1989:Angular diameter 1936:relativistic jet 1847:Seyfert galaxies 1695:molecular clouds 1678:Starburst galaxy 1611:warm dark matter 1592:dwarf elliptical 1507:Andromeda Galaxy 1416:angular velocity 1268:type-cD galaxies 1264:largest galaxies 1242:Type-cD galaxies 1118: 1116: 1102: 1100: 1067:x-ray telescopes 1060: 1058: 1028:radio telescopes 985:X-ray telescopes 909: 805:Vesto M. Slipher 779:Andromeda Galaxy 698:Andromeda Galaxy 696:, including the 646:William Herschel 638:William Herschel 585: 546: 543: 448:Whirlpool Galaxy 440:Andromeda Galaxy 390:island universes 386:Andromeda Galaxy 366: 346: Which men 339: 336: 332:Geoffrey Chaucer 293: 292: 285: 284: 277: 225:Andromeda Galaxy 190:Andromeda Galaxy 175: 173: 112: 111: 105: 82:interstellar gas 78:stellar remnants 40: 13581: 13580: 13576: 13575: 13574: 13572: 13571: 13570: 13551: 13550: 13549: 13539: 13537: 13527: 13525: 13515: 13513: 13501: 13491: 13489: 13481: 13479: 13474: 13456: 13425:Visual grouping 13420: 13384: 13306: 13298: 13268: 13263: 13231: 13130: 13045: 12938: 12897: 12807: 12742: 12721:Galaxy filament 12665:Galactic Center 12633: 12488: 12483: 12406: 12401: 12393: 12389: 12385: 12381: 12377: 12369: 12367: 12346: 12312: 12310: 12303: 12276: 12274: 12267: 12239: 12229:Springer-Verlag 12204: 12202: 12195: 12167: 12165: 12150: 12122: 12120: 12113: 12085: 12046: 12044: 12037: 12009: 12007: 12000: 11968: 11966: 11959: 11938: 11918:Fraknoi, Andrew 11902: 11880: 11878: 11863: 11836: 11834: 11827: 11807:Lin, Chia-Chiao 11792: 11790: 11783: 11760: 11755: 11745: 11743: 11734: 11733: 11729: 11719: 11717: 11702: 11698: 11688: 11686: 11669: 11665: 11655: 11653: 11652:on May 13, 2012 11638: 11631: 11616: 11590:. p. 119. 11575: 11571: 11538: 11534: 11477: 11473: 11463: 11461: 11444: 11440: 11399: 11395: 11366:(5450): 69–74. 11356: 11352: 11306:Physics Reports 11301: 11297: 11287: 11285: 11266: 11262: 11227: 11223: 11168: 11164: 11154: 11152: 11132: 11128: 11108: 11100: 11096: 11086: 11084: 11069: 11065: 11014: 11010: 11000: 10998: 10983: 10979: 10969: 10967: 10954: 10953: 10949: 10939: 10937: 10923: 10919: 10911: 10907: 10897: 10895: 10882: 10881: 10877: 10828: 10824: 10769: 10765: 10692: 10688: 10624: 10620: 10610: 10608: 10589:Overbye, Dennis 10586: 10582: 10574: 10529:Physics Reports 10523: 10513: 10509: 10454: 10447: 10413:Physics Reports 10404: 10395: 10360: 10356: 10346: 10344: 10333:"Protogalaxies" 10331: 10330: 10326: 10316: 10314: 10301: 10300: 10296: 10257: 10250: 10234:10.1038/513041a 10219:(7516): 41–42. 10203: 10199: 10157: 10153: 10099: 10095: 10038: 10034: 9991: 9987: 9936: 9932: 9891: 9887: 9854: 9850: 9840: 9838: 9825: 9824: 9820: 9761: 9757: 9747: 9745: 9728: 9727: 9723: 9672: 9668: 9658: 9656: 9641: 9637: 9627: 9625: 9610: 9606: 9596: 9594: 9573: 9569: 9559: 9557: 9538: 9537: 9533: 9484: 9480: 9423: 9419: 9370: 9366: 9313: 9309: 9254: 9250: 9203: 9196: 9186: 9184: 9183:. 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6424: 6419: 6413: 6405: 6401: 6397: 6393: 6389: 6385: 6380: 6375: 6371: 6367: 6366: 6361: 6354: 6347: 6342: 6326: 6322: 6318: 6311: 6303: 6299: 6294: 6289: 6285: 6281: 6276: 6271: 6267: 6263: 6262: 6257: 6250: 6234: 6230: 6226: 6220: 6212: 6208: 6203: 6198: 6194: 6190: 6185: 6180: 6176: 6172: 6171: 6166: 6158: 6149: 6144: 6140: 6136: 6132: 6128: 6127: 6122: 6115: 6108: 6103: 6099: 6095: 6091: 6087: 6083: 6078: 6073: 6069: 6065: 6064: 6059: 6052: 6043: 6038: 6033: 6028: 6024: 6020: 6019: 6014: 6007: 5999: 5995: 5991: 5985: 5981: 5977: 5973: 5969: 5965: 5961: 5954: 5938: 5934: 5928: 5920: 5916: 5912: 5908: 5904: 5900: 5899: 5894: 5887: 5871: 5867: 5863: 5856: 5849: 5845: 5841: 5836: 5820: 5816: 5815: 5810: 5804: 5796: 5792: 5788: 5784: 5780: 5779:1721.1/133770 5776: 5771: 5766: 5762: 5758: 5753: 5748: 5744: 5740: 5739: 5734: 5727: 5711: 5707: 5706: 5700: 5692: 5684: 5680: 5675: 5670: 5666: 5662: 5657: 5652: 5648: 5644: 5643: 5638: 5627: 5619: 5615: 5611: 5607: 5603: 5599: 5594: 5589: 5585: 5581: 5580: 5572: 5556: 5552: 5548: 5544: 5537: 5521: 5517: 5513: 5509: 5503: 5495: 5491: 5486: 5481: 5477: 5473: 5469: 5465: 5464: 5459: 5455: 5449: 5441: 5437: 5433: 5429: 5425: 5424: 5419: 5413: 5405: 5401: 5397: 5393: 5389: 5385: 5380: 5375: 5371: 5367: 5366: 5358: 5342: 5338: 5334: 5330: 5323: 5314: 5309: 5304: 5299: 5294: 5289: 5285: 5281: 5280: 5275: 5268: 5252: 5249:X-Ray Group. 5248: 5244: 5237: 5221: 5217: 5213: 5212: 5207: 5201: 5185: 5181: 5177: 5171: 5164: 5160: 5156: 5151: 5135: 5131: 5127: 5126: 5121: 5115: 5107: 5101: 5097: 5093: 5089: 5083: 5067: 5063: 5059: 5055: 5051: 5050: 5045: 5041: 5035: 5027: 5023: 5019: 5015: 5011: 5005: 4996: 4991: 4987: 4983: 4979: 4975: 4974: 4969: 4965: 4959: 4951: 4947: 4943: 4939: 4935: 4931: 4930: 4925: 4919: 4903: 4899: 4895: 4888: 4879: 4874: 4870: 4866: 4862: 4858: 4857: 4852: 4848: 4842: 4834: 4830: 4826: 4825: 4820: 4814: 4806: 4802: 4798: 4794: 4790: 4784: 4776: 4772: 4768: 4764: 4760: 4756: 4755: 4750: 4743: 4735: 4731: 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