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The ING Hubble Sequence
of Galaxy Morphological Classification



Find out about the Hubble Sequence: A REVISED SHAPLEY-AMES CATALOGUE, A.R. Sandage and G.A. Tammann.


EARLY TYPES
Ellipticals
Diffuse objects with no structure
dE0
Dwarfs
E0
Elliptical with no eccentricity
E1
M105
E2
E3
E4
E5
E6
E7
Barred
 
Lenticulars
SB01
Bar very prominent
S01
No dust absorption
SB02
S02
SB03
S03
Dust lane across
NGC2685
SBa
Spirals
Sa
Big bulge, wound up arms
NGC1169
SBab
Sab
NGC 488
SBb
Sb
M95
NGC 7331
SBbc
Sbc
SBc
Sc
Little bulge, open arms
NGC 2336
M51. The
Whirpool Galaxy

Irregulars
Sd
Sm
Im
Irr I
Knots and O/B stars
NGC 6822
Irr II
Diffuse with no structure
NGC 3034
LATE
TYPES



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Last modified: 13 December 2010