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There are about 51 galaxies in the Local Group (see list of nearest galaxies for a complete list), on the order of 100,000 in the Local Supercluster, and an estimated 100 billion in all of the observable universe.
By our best estimates, there are more than 125 billion galaxies in the observable universe. It would be a daunting task to assign a name to all of them. Only the most prominent galaxies, or the ones that are closer to our own, receive proper names.
Galaxy clusters are gravitationally bound groupings of galaxies, numbering from the hundreds to the tens of thousands. This is an alphabetically ordered list of selected galaxies and galaxy clusters. (See also astronomy; cosmology; list of stars; nebula; protogalaxy; star cluster; supercluster.)
A galaxy is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, dark matter, bound together by gravity. The word is derived from the Greek galaxias, literally 'milky', a reference to the Milky Way galaxy that contains the Solar System.
Galaxies consist of stars, planets, and vast clouds of gas and dust, all bound together by gravity. The largest contain trillions of stars and can be more than a million light-years across. The smallest can contain a few thousand stars and span just a few hundred light-years.
List of galaxies and galaxy clusters. Because there are so many galaxies in the universe, this list has been divided into several categories. The first catalog that catalogues galaxies is the Catalogue of Galaxies and of Clusters of Galaxies.
5 ημέρες πριν · Astronomers classify galaxies into three major categories: elliptical, spiral and irregular. These galaxies span a wide range of sizes, from dwarf galaxies containing as few as 100 million stars to giant galaxies with more than a trillion stars.