Above and Beyond: Galaxy Types—Enormous Ellipticals
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This video shows enormous elliptical galaxies.
Produced by the Space Telescope Science Institute’s Office of Public Outreach.
All images, illustrations, and videos courtesy of NASA, ESA, and STScI except:
· Milky Way panoramas courtesy of ESO/Y. Beletsky and ESO/Bruno Gilli
· Photos of Edwin Hubble courtesy of Huntington Library
· Andromeda Galaxy image courtesy of Bill Schoening, Vanessa Harvey/REU program/NOAO/AURA/NSF
· Photo of Henrietta Leavitt courtesy of American Institute of Physics, Emilio Segrè Visual Archives
· M33, M94, NGC 55, M49, and M84 images courtesy of NOAO/AURA/NSF
· NGC 6822 image courtesy of Local Group Galaxies Survey Team/NOAO/AURA/NSF
· NGC 1232 image courtesy of ESO/P. Grosbøl
· NGC 4449 image courtesy of Digital Sky Survey/AURA
· NGC 1300 image courtesy of Hillary Mathis/NOAO/AURA/NSF
· Small Magellanic Cloud image courtesy of F. Winkler/Middlebury College, the MCELS Team, and NOAO/AURA/NSF
· NGC 55 color image courtesy of T. A. Rector/NOAO/AURA/NSF
Written by Vanessa Thomas
Designed by John Godfrey
Music courtesy of Association Production Music
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Text, GALAXY TYPES. ENORMOUS Ellipticals
Text, GALAXY TYPES. ENORMOUS Ellipticals
A bright yellow elliptical galaxy slowly spins.
A bright pink and white elliptical galaxy slowly spins.
A bright white elliptical galaxy slowly spins.
A bright cream colored elliptical galaxy slowly spins.
A bright peach elliptical galaxy slowly spins.