What Types of Galaxies are There?

Author: William Gottemoller
Published: Sat 13 Feb 2021
Episode Link: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/william-gottemoller/episodes/What-Types-of-Galaxies-are-There-epolsa

For hundreds of thousands of years, humans have stared up at their night sky in spectacular wonder; lined with thousands of stars, some bright, some faint, and 5 particular wanderers we now know as planets, our human ancestors found great indulgence in the night sky. With the beautiful beams of light shining through the night, there exists another, less luminous band of haze that appears throughout the northern summer and a very faint band that appears throughout the northern winter. This diffuse and branching pattern of haze in the night sky came to be referred to in the western world as the Milky Way, whose name derived from a Greek myth about the Goddess Hera who sprayed milk, in meaning the haze of the Milky Way, throughout the night sky. In this episode, we shall discuss some of the many classifications of galaxies.

References

Spiral Galaxy - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_galaxy

Origin of Spiral Galaxies - ThoughtCo

https://www.thoughtco.com/spiral-galaxies-3072049

Barred Spiral Galaxy - Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_spiral_galaxy

Super Luminous Spiral Galaxy - The Astrophysical Journal

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/0004-637X/817/2/109

Ring Galaxy - Universe Today

https://www.universetoday.com/30697/ring-galaxy/

Elliptical Galaxy - Cosmos