Hubble Types of Galaxies
as illustrated by the Messier galaxies
A turned-around and mirrored Hubble tuning-fork.
“Early” Hubble types are top, “late” bottom in this diagram.
For spirals, “Bar” structures move a galaxy to the right.
As almost all galaxies, the 40 galaxies in Messier’s catalog (including
the M102 candidate NGC 5866) find their place in the Hubble type diagram,
as shown below.
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M110, E6pec |
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M59, E5 |
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M49, E4 |
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M89, E0 |
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M104, Sa |
M65, SABa |
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M109, SBbc |
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M83, SABc |
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M33, Scd |
M101, SABcd |
M108, SBcd |
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M82, Ir-II |
Last Modification: 14 Feb 1998, 17:30 MET