Galaxies

Galaxies The three main types of galaxies are spiral, elliptical, and irregular.

Sprial- has the shape of twin spirals, we can see other stars otside the galaxy from different angles Elliptical- looks like it is flattened and contains billions of stars, but has little gasses. Because of lacks of gas, new stars cannot form Irregular- do not have regular shapes and Large Magellanic Cloud is an irregular galaxy about 160,000 light-years away from our galaxy