JAKARTA – universe stores a lot of material such as stars, planets, meteors, comets, including galaxies. For the uninitiated, this galaxy is a star system that has very large dimensions.
This galaxy is also very numerous and even innumerable. But there are at least 12 of the most popular galaxy names worth knowing, what are they? Below is a list compiled from various sources, Friday (12/16/2022).
1. Bima Shakti (Milky Way)
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. It is shaped like a ribbon and was first discovered by Galileo Galilei with his telescope in 1610. The Milky Way has a total mass about a trillion times that of the sun with a diameter of 100,000 light years.
2. Andromeda
Andromeda is a spiral galaxy about 2.5 million light-years from Earth and is the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way. It takes its name from the region of the sky where the constellation Andromeda appears. By its diameter, Andromeda is 220,000 light years in diameter.
3. Black eye
It is a galaxy discovered by Edward Pigott in March 1779. The Black Eye Galaxy has a spectacular dark band that absorbs dust in front of the galaxy’s bright stars, giving it the nickname the “Black Eye” or “Evil Eye” galaxy.
4. Paper wheel
The Carthweel Galaxy is a lenticular galaxy and ring galaxy approximately 500 million light-years away in the constellation Sculptor. The shape resembles a wagon wheel, which is why astronomers call it a cartwheel, which is the English word for wagon wheel.
5. Comet Galaxy
It is a spiral galaxy located 3.2 billion light-years from Earth, in the Abell 2667 cluster of galaxies, discovered with the Hubble Space Telescope in 2007. It has a mass slightly greater than that of the Milky Way.
6. Sunflower
The Sunflower Galaxy is a spiral galaxy in the northern constellation Canes Venatici about 27 million light-years away. It was first discovered by the French astronomer Pierre Méchain then verified by his colleague Charles Messier on June 14, 1779.
7. Sombrero
As the name suggests, this galaxy is shaped like a typical Mexican hat, the Sombrero. The Sombrero Galaxy is located about 28 million light years from our galaxy with a very large bulge and a very large galactic nucleus.
