M85 - Lenticular Galaxy - Deep Sky Videos

Summary Lenticular galaxies, such as Messier 85, often look like elliptical galaxies to us but they are disk shaped rather than spherical like the ellipticals. They are common in galaxy clusters where spiral galaxies are rare and rare outside the clusters where spirals are common. So astronomers think they are formed when a spiral galaxy encounter the gas cloud of a cluster and has its dust and gas, and hence spiral arms, stripped from it.

SUnknownM85 - Lenticular Galaxy - Deep Sky Videos

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Stars : Becky Smethurst Brady Haran Mike Merrifield Meghan Gray

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Genres : Documentary

Release date : Sep 3, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

Summary Lenticular galaxies, such as Messier 85, often look like elliptical galaxies to us but they are disk shaped rather than spherical like the ellipticals. They are common in galaxy clusters where spiral galaxies are rare and rare outside the clusters where spirals are common. So astronomers think they are formed when a spiral galaxy encounter the gas cloud of a cluster and has its dust and gas, and hence spiral arms, stripped from it.

Details

Genres : Documentary

Release date : Sep 3, 2012

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Official sites : Official YouTube Channel

Language : English

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