Archive for September, 2011
Cladistics and the Hubble sequence
Posted by astroclad in Classification on September 21, 2011
Hubble discovered galaxies in 1922. He found elliptically shaped objects and disky ones showing spiral arms sometimes with a bar at the center. He also thought that because of Jean’s law, elliptical galaxies would flatten into a disk, so the elliptical galaxies are the most ancestral ones. We can code Hubble’s initial observation with to […]