Hubble tuning fork

Edwin Hubble created the tuning fork diagram of galaxy classification. Even though it does not represent an evolutionary sequence, as Hubble thought, it is still used today.

Credit:

NASA, ESA, Sloan Digital SkySurvey, R. Delgado-Serrano and F. Hammer (Observatoire de Paris)

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