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Galaxies come in two main types, spirals and ellipticals.   The distinction between the two is likely due to their age (ellipticals tend to  be made of older stars) and environment (ellipticals are often found in denser  environments and near the centres of galaxy clusters). environments).  Ellipticals are fuzzy balls of stars, some spherical, others elongated  like buns (oblate) or AFL footballs (prolate). They don't have any structure,  and no matter what angle you look at them from, they just look like fuzzy