Galaxies
 
 
An active galaxy with a pair of particle jets The Milky Way galaxy Spiral galaxy seen from a watery, rocky planet Extragalactic Web How  Edwin Hubble thought galaxies evolved Accurate portrait of our Milky Way galaxy, oblique view Our Milky Way galaxy and the smaller galaxies within its neighbourhood Two giant black holes colliding in an accretion disk Our Milky Way galaxy and its entourage of globular clusters Accurate portrait of our Milky Way galaxy, face on view Accurate portrait of our Milky Way galaxy, oblique view A view towards the dense core of the Milky Way galaxy Blank square Blank square Blank square Blank square Blank square Blank square Blank square Blank square Blank square Blank square Blank square Blank square About this gallery
This gallery contains illustrations of various galaxies, including our own, the Milky Way. Galaxies are huge islands of stars, containing as few as a million or as many as a trillion members.