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NGC 450 and a companion. Although the two galaxies appear to form a pair, they are actually at much different distances. The smaller, fainter object is 7 times farther away.

NGC 5792 , a spiral galaxy that we see nearly edge-on. The bright red star is in the Milky Way, very, very close to us compared to the distant galaxy. The star makes a colorful counterpart to the blue galaxy, although the two are unrelated.

NGC 4437 , a spectacular edge-on spiral galaxy.

NGC 1032 , another edge-on galaxy.

NGC 4753 , an elliptical galaxy with strange dust filaments. The dust filaments may be the shredded remains of a small spiral galaxy that was captured by the much larger elliptical.

NGC 60 , a distant spiral galaxy with unusually distorted spiral arms. Arms like these normally arise from the gravitational effects of neighbor galaxies, but for this object there is no obvious neighbor.

NGC 5496 , another edge-on spiral galaxy.

NGC 936 NGC 936, a nearby barred spiral galaxy.

NGC 1055 , a nearby spiral seen edge-on. The galaxy has a lot of dust in its disk.

NGC 5750

NGC 3521

NGC 2967 , which appears nearly face-on.

NGC 5719

UGC 01962 , a whirlpool-like face-on spiral.

NGC 1087 , a star forming spiral

NGC 5334 a photogenic spiral galaxy.

Palomar 3 Palomar 3 (also known as Sextans C) is a globular cluster, a collection of old stars orbiting the Milky Way.

Globular cluster Palomar 5 , which is being torn apart by the Milky Way's gravity.

UGCA 285 , an ultra-low surface brightness galaxy. Galaxies come in a variety of sizes and luminosities; this galaxy is so faint that even the SDSS's camera can barely see it.

UGC 07332 , a nearby, blue, low surface brightness galaxy.

UGC 05205 and its companion. These two galaxies are very young, full of young, blue hot stars.

A nearby group of galaxies centered on NGC 0201 . Galaxy groups typically have about 10-20 members.

VIII Zw 388 , a picturesque group of galaxies, discovered and catalogued by famous astronomer Fritz Zwicky.

A cluster of Red-Shifted Galaxies moderately far away. One of the major goals of the SDSS is to learn how galaxies cluster, and to use the clustering to infer the characteristics of the early universe.

Abell 168 , a nearby cluster of galaxies.

A Rich Cluster , detected by the SDSS.

A medium distant cluster of galaxies . The Sloan Survey has detected thousands of galaxy clusters, most of which have never been catalogued.

Abell 267 , a distant rich cluster of galaxies.

The ensemble of faint images is a superposition of three clusters of galaxies at different distances along the line of sight. The estimated redshifts of the clusters are 0.38, 0.43, and 0.50. The different redshifts give rise to slightly different colors in the galaxies, with the most distant objects appearing to be the reddest.

Another rich cluster , detected by the SDSS.

Abell 0957 , a well-known rich cluster, at a redshift of 0.0423, detected by the SDSS.

ZwCl 1710 ZwCl 1710, also known as Abell 2255, a rich cluster, at a redshift 0.081, detected by the SDSS. This cluster was also detected in X-rays.

ARP 240 , an interacting pair of galaxies. Note how the galaxies have distorted each other through their mutual gravity.

Another pair of violently interacting galaxies. The brighter object is called UGC 08584.

Two well-known spiral galaxies, NGC 799, and NGC 800, very close together.

NGC 428, a spectacularly blue nearby spiral galaxy. The blue color indicates very active star formation in this galaxy.

UGC 10770, a young spiral galaxy, undergoing a collision. This object is mentioned in many catalogs of interacting galaxies (ARP, etc).

NGC 7603 and PGC 07041 NGC 7603 and PGC 07041, an interacting pair. Notice the "bridge" of stars and gas between the two galaxies. The bigger object, NGC 7603, is a well-known Seyfert galaxy. Seyfert galaxies have small, bright, active cores.

UGC 1597 , a Seyfert galaxy with an active core. Notice the disturbed appearance of the galaxy. This object may be the remnant of an old collision between two galaxies. As a by-product of the collision, gas from one galaxy is being dumped onto a black hole at the center of the other galaxy, giving rise to the active core.

The faint reddish object is a distant quasar (redshift z=5.0). Quasars are the most luminous objects in the Universe. They consist of a giant black hole in the center of a host galaxy. This object was the first to exceed the magic distance threshold of z=5.0.