Cartwheel Galaxy

THE ANDROMEDA GALAXY The Andromeda galaxy is the closest galaxy to our own, the Milky Way. It is also a similar shape to the Milky Way, but it is actually 4x bigger. You can even see it from earth on a clear night.

SOMBRERO GALAXY This galaxy is known as the Sombrero Galaxy because it one. It has a large Galactic Centre and the stars in it appear to spin around it more like the rings of Saturn than the stars in a Spiral Galaxy.

THE PINWHEEL GALAXY This galaxy is another Spiral Galaxy. We can see that it spins in an anticlockwise direction, showing us these spiral tails spinning around like a Catherine Wheel. These tails are very long and will take millions of years to return to the same spot .

The Milky Way is the galaxy where our solar system is located. Its name is a translation of the Latin Via Lactea, in turn translated from the Greek Γαλαξίας (Galaxias), referring to the pale band of light formed by stars in the galactic plane as seen from Earth.

Messier 81 (also known as NGC 3031 or Bode's Galaxy) is a spiral galaxy. M81 is one of the most striking examples of a grand design spiral galaxy, with near perfect arms spiraling into the very center. Because of its proximity to Earth, its large size, and its active galactic nucleus Messier 81 is a popular galaxy to study in professional astronomy research.

Messier 82 (also known as NGC 3034, Cigar Galaxy or M82) The starburst galaxy is five times as bright as the whole Milky Way and one hundred times as bright as our galaxy's center.

The Comet Galaxy is a spiral galaxy located 3.2 billion light-years from Earth, in the galaxy cluster Abell 2667, was found with the Hubble Space Telescope. This galaxy has around 500 thousand stars in it and has a little more mass than our Milky Way. It was detected on 2nd March of 2007.

Hoag's Object is a non-typical galaxy of the type known as a ring galaxy. The appearance of this object has interested amateur astronomers as much as its uncommon structure has fascinated professionals. The galaxy is named after Arthur Allen Hoag who discovered it in 1950 and identified it as either a planetary nebula or a peculiar galaxy with 8 billion stars

Mayall's Object is the result of two colliding galaxies located 500 million light years away within the constellation of Ursa Major. It was discovered by Nicholas U. Mayall of the Lick Observatory on 13 March 1940, using the Crossley reflector.

Sunflower Galaxy