the.com/elliptical galaxy
a galaxy that already burned through its rebellious phase and now just... exists.
means a football-or-blob-shaped galaxy made mostly of old stars, with little gas or dust left to form new ones.
from classified by edwin hubble in the 1920s as part of his galaxy morphology scheme, labeled e0 through e7 by how squashed they look.
star formationmostly stopped, no fresh stellar nurseries left
biggest galaxiesthe largest known galaxies are ellipticals, from mergers
shape rangee0 is round, e7 is a stretched cigar
birth storyusually formed by colliding spiral galaxies