Hubble Types of Messier Galaxies (original) (raw)

as illustrated by the Messier galaxies

A turned-around and mirrored Hubble tuning-fork.

"Early" Hubble types are top, "late" bottom in this diagram. For spirals, "Bar" structures move a galaxy to the right.

As almost all galaxies, the 40 galaxies in Messier's catalog, including M102 (NGC 5866) and the two "surplus" galaxies, M51B (NGC 5191) and M109B (NGC 3953) find their place in the Hubble type diagram, as shown below.

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                           ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m110.ico.jpg)
                           [M110](../../m/m110.html), E6pec
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                           ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m59.ico.jpg)
                           [M59](../../m/m059.html), E5
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                           ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m49.ico.jpg)
                           [M49](../../m/m049.html), E4
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                     ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m32.ico.jpg)    ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m60.ico.jpg)
                     [M32](../../m/m032.html), cE2     [M60](../../m/m060.html), E2 
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                     ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m87.ico.jpg)    ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m105.ico.jpg)
                     [M87](../../m/m087.html), E1      [M105](../../m/m105.html), E1 
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                           ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m89.ico.jpg)
                           [M89](../../m/m089.html), E0 
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       ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m84.ico.jpg)   ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m86.ico.jpg)     ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m85.ico.jpg)    ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/ngc5866.ico.jpg)
        [M84](../../m/m084.html), S0+    [M86](../../m/m086.html), S0+   [M85](../../m/m085.html), S0(s)+  [M102/NGC 5866](../../m/m102.html), S0_3
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                     +--------+--------+
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              ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m104.ico.jpg)    ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m65.ico.jpg)
              [M104](../../m/m104.html), Sa      [M65](../../m/m065.html), SABa

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       ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m81.ico.jpg)     ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m94.ico.jpg)        ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m77.ico.jpg)      ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m90.ico.jpg)
      [M81](../../m/m081.html), Sab   [M94](../../m/m094.html), S(r)ab  [M77](../../m/m077.html), SABab   [M90](../../m/m090.html), SABab
              ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m64.ico.jpg)            ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m96.ico.jpg)      ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m98.ico.jpg)
            [M64](../../m/m064.html), Sab          [M96](../../m/m096.html), SABab   [M98](../../m/m098.html), SABab

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          ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m31.ico.jpg)      ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m58.ico.jpg)     ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m91.ico.jpg)
           [M31](../../m/m031.html), Sb        [M58](../../m/m058.html), SABb      [M91](../../m/m091.html), SBb
          ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m88.ico.jpg)       ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m66.ico.jpg)      ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m95.ico.jpg)
           [M88](../../m/m088.html), Sb        [M66](../../m/m066.html), SABb       [M95](../../m/m095.html), SBb

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        ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m63.ico.jpg)    ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m100.ico.jpg)    ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m61.ico.jpg)     ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m109.ico.jpg)
         [M63](../../m/m063.html), Sbc     [M100](../../m/m100.html), SABbc  [M61](../../m/m061.html), SABbc    [M109](../../m/m109.html), SBbc 
        ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m51.ico.jpg)           ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m106.ico.jpg)          ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m109b.ico.jpg)
         [M51](../../m/m051.html), Sbc          [M106](../../m/m106.html), SABbc          [M109B](../../m/m109b.html), SBbc

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          ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m74.ico.jpg)    ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m99.ico.jpg)    ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m83.ico.jpg)
           [M74](../../m/m074.html), Sc      [M99](../../m/m099.html), Sc     [M83](../../m/m083.html), SABc 

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             ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m33.ico.jpg)      ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m101.ico.jpg)       ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m108.ico.jpg)  
             [M33](../../m/m033.html), Scd     [M101](../../m/m101.html), SABcd     [M108](../../m/m108.html), SBcd  

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                     ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m82.ico.jpg)   ![](http://messier.seds.org/Jcon/m51b.ico.jpg)
                     [M82](../../m/m082.html), Ir-II      [M51B](../../m/m051b.html), Pec

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