Hubble Sequence (2000)
 
 
I made this picture in Photoshop as a commission for Sky & Telescope. It shows the famous Hubble diagram, which astronomer Edwin Hubble devised to show how he thought galaxies evolved from spherical to elliptical, before splitting into two tracks: spiral (right tine) and barred spiral. In fact, we now know that galaxies do not follow this pattern of evolution.

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