These images are in jpeg or gif format. Simply click on the name of the galaxy or it's thumbnail to see an enlarged version and some facts about each galaxy. The galaxy names here come from two different catalogs, the New General Catalog (NGC) and the Messier Catalog (M). In the galaxy names you will see the catalog's abbreviation and then the galaxy's number in that catalog.
These images are of spiral galaxies:
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These four images are of spirals, with distinct dust lanes:
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An image of an elliptical galaxy:
A couple of irregular galaxies:
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Here's a sample of a rotating galaxy:
There's no way I could fit all the galaxy images on this page that I would want to, so here's some links to other pages with beautiful pictures:
NGC 1232
NGC 1365
NGC 2997
NGC 3351
NGC 3556
NGC 3631
NGC 3810
NGC 3893
NGC 3938
NGC 4258
NGC 4501
NGC 4535
NGC 5985
M 100
M 101
M 83
NGC 2903 
NGC 891 
NGC 4013 
NGC 5746 
M 104 - the Sombrero galaxy 
M 87 
The Small Magellanic Cloud
The Large Magellanic Cloud
Sextans A