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elliptical galaxy

galaxy having an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless brightness profile
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elliptical galaxy
NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA); J. Blakeslee (Washington State University) · Public Domain · Wikimedia
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elliptical galaxy

Summary

elliptical galaxy ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (470 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • elliptical galaxy's image is recorded as Abell S740, cropped to ESO 325-G004.jpg[2].
  • elliptical galaxy's follows is recorded as lenticular galaxy[3].
  • elliptical galaxy's subclass of is recorded as galaxy[4].
  • elliptical galaxy's Commons category is recorded as Elliptical galaxies[5].
  • elliptical galaxy's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/01dgzb[6].
  • elliptical galaxy's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Elliptical galaxies[7].
  • elliptical galaxy's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as topic/elliptical-galaxy[8].
  • elliptical galaxy's NE.se ID is recorded as elliptisk-galax[9].
  • elliptical galaxy's JSTOR topic ID is recorded as elliptical-galaxies[10].
  • elliptical galaxy's Unified Astronomy Thesaurus ID is recorded as 456[11].
  • elliptical galaxy's Elhuyar ZTH ID is recorded as 135893[12].
  • elliptical galaxy's on focus list of Wikimedia project is recorded as Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[13].
  • elliptical galaxy's Microsoft Academic ID is recorded as 871022[14].
  • elliptical galaxy's KBpedia ID is recorded as EllipticalGalaxy[15].
  • elliptical galaxy's OpenAlex ID is recorded as C871022[16].
  • elliptical galaxy's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as earth-and-planetary-sciences/elliptical-galaxy[17].
  • elliptical galaxy's ScienceDirect topic ID is recorded as physics-and-astronomy/elliptical-galaxies[18].
  • elliptical galaxy's Encyclopedia of China is recorded as 65720[19].
  • elliptical galaxy's Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID is recorded as ellipticheskie-galaktiki-782622[20].
  • elliptical galaxy's Vikidia article ID is recorded as fr:Galaxie_elliptique[21].

Why It Matters

elliptical galaxy ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (470 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[22] It is known by 31 alternative names across languages and contexts.[23]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [6] ↑ . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . KBpedia. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . OpenAlex. Retrieved . docs.openalex.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [22] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [23] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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