Sentences with phrase «small irregular galaxies»
The Magellanic Clouds are small irregular galaxies orbiting our own larger Milky Way spiral galaxy.
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NGC 6822, about 1.6 million light - years away, is classified as an irregular dwarf galaxy because of its odd shape and relatively small size compared with other galaxies, such as our own, the Milky Way, and its other neighbors, the Andromeda and Triangulum galaxies.
Not only does it hint at the universe's unexpected richness, but that abundance suggests that small, irregular galaxies merge to form the larger ones more familiar in our cosmic neighborhood.
The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, visible in the Southern Hemisphere, are two dwarf irregular galaxies that are neighbors of the Milky Way.
The sequence of images below starting from top left: the Large Magellanic Cloud (satellite of Milky Way), the Small Magellanic Cloud (satellite of Milky Way), IC 5152 (irregular in Local Group), NGC 3084 (= Messier 82, starburst irregular in M81 group), NGC 1313 (another starburst galaxy), NGC 6822 (irregular in Local Group).
To nearly everybody's surprise, as reported in January in the journal Nature, the bursts originated in a small «dwarf irregular» galaxy, one about a gigaparsec (just over 3 billion light years) away.
NGC 5253 (left) is a small spiral / irregular galaxy near M83.
The Coalsack earned the nickname «Black Magellanic Cloud» in the 16th century, apparently rivalling the prominence of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, the two dwarf irregular galaxies that shine brightly in the skies of the Southern Hemisphere.