There is no visible gas or dust clouds in these galaxies, they are just a uniform "ball" of stars
These galaxies are very different from our own Milky Way: they do not have a round plane of stars, nor do they have dust or gas clouds, they are composed of just "big balls of stars" that have no visible surface features.
There is no visible gas or dust clouds in these galaxies, they are just a uniform "ball" of stars
Ellipticals come in a variety of
ellipticities ("squashed-ness"):
very round like
this next picture (and the previous three shown on this page)...
...or more elongated (long and skinny) like these next two...
Elliptical galaxies are just big balls
of stars that contain no gas or dust. So, if you were on a planet
orbiting a star in an elliptical galaxy, how do you think the sky you
would see at night (i.e. the arrangement and appearance of stars)
differ from the sky we see on earth?
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