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NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hubble sequence An elliptical galaxy is a type of galaxy in the Hubble sequence characterized by the following physical properties: The giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4881 (the spherical glow at upper left) lies at the edge of the Coma Cluster of Galaxies. The Spindle Galaxy (NGC 5866), a lenticular galaxy in the Draco constellation. Elliptical galaxies are generally fairly low in gas and dust, and are composed mostly of older stars. www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hubble-sequence   (1046 words)

NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Elliptical Galaxy M49 Elliptical Galaxy M49 (also known as Messier Object 49, Messier 49, M49, or NGC 4472) is an elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation. Dwarf elliptical galaxies are probably not true ellipticals at all; they have properties that are similar to those of irregulars and late spiral-type galaxies. Elliptical galaxy M49, of type E4 in the constellation Virgo, is one... www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Elliptical-Galaxy-M49   (224 words)

NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Virgo Because of the presence of a galaxy cluster (consequently called the Virgo cluster) within its borders 5° to 10° west of ε Vir (Vindemiatrix), this constellation is especially rich in galaxies. Galaxy groups and clusters are super-structures in the spread of galaxies of the cosmos. Some examples are M49 (elliptical), M58 (spiral), M59 (elliptical), M60 (elliptical), M61 (spiral), M84 (elliptical), M86 (elliptical), M87 (elliptical and a famous radiosource), M89 (elliptical) and M90 (spiral). www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Virgo   (6482 words)

* M49 - (Astronomy): Definition M49 is one of the brightest Virgo Cluster member galaxies with its mag 8.5, which corresponds to an absolute magnitude of approximately -22.8, regarding its distance of about 60 million light years. This giant eliptical galaxy in Virgo is one of the major members in Virgo Galaxy Cluster and was discovered by Messier on February 19, 1771. M49 is a small elliptical galaxy located in the constellation Virgo. en.mimi.hu /astronomy/m49.html   (228 words)

Elliptical galaxy at AllExperts This traditional portrait of elliptical galaxies paints them as galaxies where star formation has finished after the initial burst, leaving them to shine with only their aging stars. The Hubble classification of elliptical galaxies ranges from E0 for those that are most spherical, to E7, which are long and thin. Ellipticals and the bulges of disk galaxies have similar properties, and are generally regarded as the same physical phenomenonElliptical galaxies tend to lie in the cores of galaxy clusters and in compact groups of galaxies. en.allexperts.com /e/e/el/elliptical_galaxy.htm   (656 words)

Astronomy Online - Messier Objects M32 - a dwarf elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda (a companion to M31). M33 - "Triangulum Galaxy" or "Pinwheel Galaxy" a spiral galaxy in the constellation Triangulum. M110 - an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Andromeda (a companion to M31). www.astronomyonline.org /Astrophotography/Messier_complete.asp?Cate=MessierComplete   (1478 words)

Cosmic Voyage-The Online Resource for Amateur Astronomers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) M49 is set apart from the Virgo cluster galaxies. This 8.4 magnitude elliptical is sandwiched between a pair of 6th magnitude stars 4.4 degrees south of M87. NGC 4470, a 12.4 magnitude spiral galaxy, is just beyond the field of view, 10' to the southwest. www.members.aol.com /billferris/m49.html   (123 words)

Virgo M49 (NGC 4472) (12h 27.3m +08°16') is a 9th magnitude elliptical galaxy. This galaxy is one of the largest elliptical galaxies known. The galaxy has a bright center, it is also a strong source of radio emission. www.starryskies.com /The_sky/constellations/virgo.html   (601 words)

Pictures Of Elliptical Galaxy   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Galaxy Types - M87 giant elliptical galaxy, the dominant galaxy in Virgo Cluster. Elliptical galaxies are actually of ellipsoidal shape, and it is now... APOD: January 6, 1996 - Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy M32 -...is visible in most pictures of M31 - it is the small circular spot north of M31's center. www.treadmill-hub.com /pictures-of-elliptical-galaxy.html   (232 words)

Hubble sequence - Glasgledius   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Elliptical galaxies have an ellipsoidal form, with a fairly even distribution of stars throughout. The number gives the degree of eccentricity: E0 galaxies are nearly spherical, while E7 are greatly flattened. Barred spiral galaxies have a similar sort of spiral structure to spiral galaxies, but instead of emanating from the bulge, the arms project out from the ends of a "bar" running through the bulge, like ribbons on either end of a baton. www.glasglow.com /E2/el/Elliptical_galaxy.html   (347 words)

The 200 Brightest Galaxies Large numbers of distances to other galaxies are being produced by this technique although it works best on elliptical and lenticular galaxies or on spiral galaxies with broad smooth central bulges. Noone cares if a galaxy 1 billion light years away is uncertain in its distance by ten million light years, but it obviously matters if the galaxy is only ten million light years away. For galaxies in the Virgo supercluster a correction needs to be added to a galaxy's velocity because of the pull of the Virgo cluster which is dragging galaxies towards it. www.anzwers.org /free/universe/galax200.html   (907 words)

Constellations: Virgo, The Virgin There are about 3,000 member galaxies of the Virgo Cluster, of which around 12 or so, can be seen with telescopes having apertures of 6" (150mm). magnitude barred spiral galaxy with a prominent bright core, and one of the brightest in the Virgo Cluster; M61; M90 and M104, the Sombrero Galaxy, easily seen in small telescopes. magnitude elliptical galaxy, which is both an optical object, and the most powerful radio source, which is known as Virgo A; and M89. www.r-clarke.org.uk /constellations/virgo.htm   (345 words)

M 49   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) It is one of the giant elliptical galaxies in this great cluster (besides M60 and M87), and is of type E4 in Hubble's classification scheme. Its extension of 9x7.5 arc minutes corresponds to an ellipsoid with a projected major axis of nearly 160,000 light years (we don't know the real extension along the line of sight toward us, of course, as we don't know the spatial orientation of the real ellipsoid axes), so it is actually a big ellipsoid. A probable supernova, 1969Q, of mag 13.0 was reported in this galaxy in June, 1969. www.messiermarathon.com /new_page_55.htm   (273 words)

Astr110, Spring 2005 Elliptical galaxies are said to have a ellipsoidal shape. Elliptical galaxies also are thought to have no global angular movement. It even has been speculated to be one of the or the largest galaxies in the Virgo cluster.It is also fading away quite rapidly.The distance is 60 million light years away and the calculated linear size is 80,000 ly. www.calvin.edu /academic/phys/observatory/images/Astr110.Spring2005/Peterson.html   (154 words)

MILKY WAY GALAXY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Ancients imagined the faint band of light stretching across the heavens was a trail of milk left by a goddess who was nursing her baby. Spiral Galaxy- A galaxy containing a flattened disk, which may have prominent arms and a large bulge at the center. Elliptical Galaxy- A galaxy that appears elliptical in the sky. www.cst.cmich.edu /users/kiefe1we/trusz1da/pub_html/galaxy.htm   (739 words)

Messier Object 49 Elliptical galaxy M49 was the first member of the Virgo cluster of galaxies discovered, by Charles Messier on February 19, 1771. The fuzzy nebulosity near the brighter star in the upper right is probably a faint, small companion, as it also appears in the DSSM image (observe the reverse orientation of these images, however). The foreground star was first mentioned by John Herschel and is of mag 13, so that it might be erroneously taken for a supernova by observers unfamilar with this galaxy's appearance. www2.arnes.si /~gljsentvid10/messier/M049.HTM   (329 words)

Messier Object 49 Elliptical galaxy M49 was the first member of the Virgo cluster of galaxies discovered, by Charles Messier who cataloged it on February 19, 1771. It is also the second galaxy discovered beyond the Local Group after Lacaille's discovery of M83. Halton Arp has included M49 as No. 134 in his Catalogue of Peculiar Galaxies as an "Elliptical with Nearby Fragments". www.seds.org /messier/m/m049.html   (314 words)

Encyclopedia entries starting with M49 M49 or M-49 may be: M49 motorway, EnglandM49 rifle, of Yugoslav originM49 telescopeElliptical Galaxy M49, a Messier object and elliptical galaxy in the Virgo constellation.. M49 motorway Length 5 miles8 km Direction North - South Start Severn Beach Primary destinations None End Avonmouth Construction dates 1996 - entire motorway Motorways joined M4 motorwayM5 motorway The M49 motorway is a small motorway west of Bristol, England, that forms.. The M49 observation telescope is a 20-power daytime telescope currently used by the US military. encycl.opentopia.com /M/M/M49   (161 words)

Stargazing In Big Sky Country   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) The two groups of galaxies are likely physically related, forming a gravitationally bound system of at least six moderately-sized galaxies. With the exception of the globular cluster M53 and the spiral galaxy M64, all of the Messier objects in this constellation lie on or near its border with its southerly neighbor, Virgo. galaxies in M84 and M86, the giant elliptical galaxy — M87 (also known as Virgo A), another elliptical — M89, a spiral — M90 and finally, the spiral galaxy M104, also known as the “Sombrero Galaxy”. www.glacieradventure.com /StarGaze/May_04.htm   (3616 words)

More M49   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) M49 (NGC 4472) is by some measures the optically brightest galaxy in the Virgo cluster, slightly outshining M87. Elliptical galaxy M49, of type E4 in the constellation Virgo, is one of the more prominent member galaxies of the Virgo Cluster, although perhaps less well known than M87, M86 or M84. As a typical elliptical galaxy, it has almost no gas or dust between its stars and shows no evidence of recent star formation. www.seds.org /messier/more/m049_more.html   (241 words)

Hawaiian Astronomical Society - Virgo The Markarian Chain of galaxies sits at the center of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies. This is probably the richest area of the Virgo Supercluster of galaxies. NGC5068 (Bennett 59a) anchors a trio of galaxies near the Hydra border, 2° north of Gamma Hydrae. www.hawastsoc.org /deepsky/vir   (2020 words)

Elliptical Tips Elliptical Price   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Ellipticals that cost $2,000 and up were well-built and felt stable to our testers, more like the $5,000 machines at gy ms. That's especially important with elliptical exercisers bec ause the movement is less familiar than walking or running, and each machine has a slightly different pedaling profile. Elliptical exercisers, most of which do no t fold and are hard to move, take up as much floor space as a couch. www.medication-spot.co.uk /eofso.htm   (679 words)

Elliptical galaxy Did You Mean elliptical?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Larger elliptical galaxies typically have a system of globular clusters, indicating an old population. This traditional portrait of elliptical galaxies paints them as galaxies where the star formation was over after the initial burst, now shining only with their aging stars. Current thinking is that an elliptical galaxy is the result of a long process where one or more smaller galaxies, of any type, collide and fuse in a larger one. www.did-you-mean.com /Elliptical_galaxy.html   (494 words)

Dwarf elliptical galaxy Dwarf elliptical galaxies are elliptical galaxies that are much smaller than others, classified as dE. There are at least two dE dwarf ellipticals in orbit around the Andromeda galaxy. A subtype of dwarf ellipticals is called a dwarf spheroidal galaxy. www.kiwipedia.com /dwarf-elliptical-galaxy.html   (172 words)

The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies This giant agglomeration of galaxies is the nearest big cluster of galaxies, the largest proven structure in our intergalactic neighborhood, and the most remote cosmic objects with a physical connection to our own small group of galaxies, the Local Group, including our Milky Way galaxy. Analogously, those galaxies which happen to move fastest away from us through the cluster, are receding at more than double redshift than the cluster's center of mass: The record is hold by NGC 4388 at 2535 km/sec, so that this galaxy moves peculiarly in the direction away from us at over 1,400 km/sec. Our image shows the central portion of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies, and is centered on the giant elliptical galaxy M87 which is considered to be the dominant galaxy of the whole giant cluster, situated close to its physical center. seds.lpl.arizona.edu /messier/more/virgo.html   (1116 words)

The Utah Skies Report Numerous young blue stars and star clusters, spawned by the galaxy collision, are seen in the spiral arms, as well as in the long "tidal" tail of stars. M49 was the first member of the Virgo cluster of galaxies discovered, by Charles Messier. This is another of the brightest galaxies in the Virgo cluster. www.utahskies.org /report/20020503/20020503weekly.html   (4879 words)

Messier Object 59 M59 is a member of the Virgo cluster of galaxies, and one of the larger elliptical galaxies there, although it is considerably less luminous and massive than the greatest ellipticals in this cluster, M49, M60 and, above all, M87. In our image, M59 is the elongated elliptical in the lower left, while in the right are M60 and its companion NGC 4647, and at the top is faint NGC 4638, an elliptical with photographic mag 12.2. M59 was discovered by Johann Gottfried Koehler on April 11, 1779, together with nearby M60, on the occasion of observing the comet of that year. www.seds.org /messier/m/m059.html   (279 words)

Utah Skies Astronomy Resource | The Amateur Astronomer's Resource Known as The Virgo Cluster of Galaxies, this area is home to almost a dozen Messier galaxies in Virgo alone. M49 was the first member of the Virgo Cluster of Galaxies discovered, by the French astronomer, Charles Messier. This is another of the giant galaxies located near the heart of the Virgo Cluster. www.utahskies.org /deepsky/constellations/virgoMain.html   (1345 words)

Elliptical Galaxy This dwarf elliptical galaxy is is being ripped by tidal forces into long streams of... September 13, 1995 Elliptical Galaxy M87 Credit: Anglo-Australian Telescope photograph by David Malin Copyright: Anglo-Australian Telescope Board Explanation: Elliptical galaxy M87 is a... Elliptical Galaxy M49 (also.....Elliptical Galaxy M49 Elliptical Galaxy M49 (also known.....49, M49, or NGC 4472) is an elliptical... www.1st-elliptical-trainers.com /elliptical/elliptical-galaxy.html   (713 words)

The Spring Sky - Spring 1999 MIRA Quarterly Newsletter The brightest is the outlying elliptical galaxy M49, but almost as bright and much more interesting is the central giant elliptical M87. As is the case with many clusters, the core of the Virgo Cluster is dominated by a single giant elliptical, which is also an active galaxy. This could be due to the capture of surrounding galaxies, mostly small spirals, whose gas is fed into the center where it is captured by a massive fl hole, causing the observed activity. www.mira.org /newsletr/nlspr99/springsky.htm   (664 words)

Messier Objects M31 The Andromeda Galaxy spiral galaxy in Andromeda Lenticular galaxy (the Spindle Galaxy NGC 5866) in Draco ? M104 The Sombrero Galaxy spiral galaxy in Virgo www.messiermarathon.com /messier.htm   (297 words)

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