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Exploring the Vast and Expanding Universe of Galaxies
TLDR Galaxies are vast structures in the universe, with our solar system being just a small part of the Milky Way. Galaxies come in different shapes and sizes, and astronomers are still studying their properties and the space between them.
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Galaxies are vast and expanding structures in the universe, and our solar system is just a tiny part of one galaxy called the Milky Way.
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Galaxies were originally referred to as "milky" by the Greeks because they looked like milky circles, and it wasn't until Galileo observed a group of stars that it was realized that these groups were separate from our own galaxy, leading to the discovery of "island universes" or galaxies.
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The James Webb Telescope can see back to 200 million years after the Big Bang, which is very close to the origin of the universe.
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Galaxies can be categorized into three main shapes: normal spiral, barred spiral, and irregular, and it is now believed that galaxies tend to start out as spiral galaxies before merging with other spirals and becoming elliptical galaxies.
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Galaxies, including the Milky Way, have a spiral shape with a galactic disc made up of different parts, such as the nucleus, bulge, and spiral arms, and the Milky Way is bent on the ends like an S.
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Galaxies are so huge that even though they may seem far apart, they are actually relatively close in the grand scheme of things, with the distance between the Milky Way and Andromeda being only three feet if represented by ping-pong balls.
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When galaxies collide, it's not like planets and stars smashing into each other, but rather they can merge without star collisions, and sometimes they just pass through each other, but their gravity still has an effect on one another.
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Astronomers are studying the intergalactic medium, the space between galaxies, which is not empty and contains gas and dust, some of which is extremely hot, but they still don't fully understand its properties or patterns.
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Hubble's law states that everything in the universe is moving away from us, and the further away something is, the faster it is moving away, suggesting that there is no center to the universe and that there is a large part of the universe that we will never be able to detect.
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Supermassive black holes at the center of galaxies are responsible for the high energy and brightness observed in active galaxies, and there are four classifications of active galaxies: Seaford galaxies, radio galaxies, quasars, and blazars.
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