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  2. Hubble sequence - Wikipedia

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    [21] [22] Although not really a shortcoming, since the 1961 Hubble Atlas of Galaxies, [23] the primary criteria used to assign the morphological type (a, b, c, etc.) has been the nature of the spiral arms, rather than the bulge-to-disk flux ratio, and thus a range of flux ratios exist for each morphological type, [23] [full citation needed] [24 ...

  3. Galaxy morphological classification - Wikipedia

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    Spiral galaxy UGC 12591 is classified as an S0/Sa galaxy. [1]The Hubble sequence is a morphological classification scheme for galaxies invented by Edwin Hubble in 1926. [2] [3] It is often known colloquially as the “Hubble tuning-fork” because of the shape in which it is traditionally represented.

  4. Edwin Hubble - Wikipedia

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    Hubble's results for Andromeda were not formally published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal until 1929. [29] Hubble's classification scheme. Hubble's findings fundamentally changed the scientific view of the universe. Supporters state that Hubble's discovery of nebulae outside of our galaxy helped pave the way for future astronomers. [30]

  5. List of the most distant astronomical objects - Wikipedia

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    380 Earth radii (very inaccurate, true=16000 Earth radii) Aristarchus of Samos made a measurement of the distance of the Sun from the Earth in relation to the distance of the Moon from the Earth. The distance to the Moon was described in Earth radii (20, also inaccurate). The diameter of the Earth had been calculated previously.

  6. Elliptical galaxy - Wikipedia

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    The giant elliptical galaxy ESO 325-4. An elliptical galaxy is a type of galaxy with an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless image. They are one of the three main classes of galaxy described by Edwin Hubble in his Hubble sequence and 1936 work The Realm of the Nebulae, [1] along with spiral and lenticular galaxies.

  7. Galactocentrism - Wikipedia

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    By 1925, Edwin Hubble had confirmed that many objects previously thought to be clouds of dust and gas and classified as "nebulae" were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way. [ 9 ] [ 10 ] [ 11 ] "The realization, only a few decades ago, that our Galaxy is not unique and central in the universe ranks with the acceptance of the Copernican system ...

  8. Timeline of knowledge about galaxies, clusters of galaxies ...

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    1992 — First detection of large-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background indicating the seeds of the first clusters of galaxies in the early Universe. 1995 — First detection of small-scale structure in the cosmic microwave background. 1995 — Hubble Deep Field survey of galaxies in field 144 arc seconds across.

  9. Cosmic distance ladder - Wikipedia

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    The observational result of Hubble's law, the proportional relationship between distance and the speed with which a galaxy is moving away from us, usually referred to as redshift, is a product of the cosmic distance ladder. Edwin Hubble observed that fainter galaxies are more redshifted. Finding the value of the Hubble constant was the result ...