1. Galaxies!
Galactic Types/Shapes (“Morphologies”)

2. Spiral Galaxies

3. What’s unusual about this Spiral Galaxy?

4. Barred-Spiral Galaxies

5. What kind of Galaxy is this?

6. Elliptical Galaxies

7. At the core of the Virgo Cluster lie the three Giant Elliptical galaxies M84, M86 and M87. These galaxies probably formed from the merger of many smaller galaxies and are much more massive than our own Milky Way Galaxy.

8. “Dwarf Galaxies”
in our neighborhood…
(The “Local Group”
of Galaxies)

9. What kind of Galaxies are these?
“Lenticular” Galaxies

10. Meet our Nearest (Southern) Galactic Neighbors…

11. What kind of Galaxies are these?
“Irregular” Galaxies

15. Galactic Collisions!

35. Active Galaxies
(“Quasars”,
“Seyfert Galaxies”,
etc.)

46. Fundamental (but Still-Mysterious) Connections between Galactic Central Bulges & their Super-Massive Black Holes…