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A galaxy which is has no spirals and is not elliptical.
The Magellanic Clouds are irregular galaxies.
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Irregular galaxy — An irregular galaxy is a galaxy that does not fall into any of the regular classes of the Hubble sequence. These are galaxies that feature neither spiral nor elliptical morphology. They are often chaotic in appearance, with neither a nuclear… … Wikipedia
irregular galaxy — Astron. a galaxy with no specific form and a relatively low mass. [1960 65] * * * … Universalium
irregular galaxy — Astron. a galaxy with no specific form and a relatively low mass. [1960 65] … Useful english dictionary
Pegasus Dwarf Irregular Galaxy — Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Pegasus Right ascension 23h 28m 36.2s[1] … Wikipedia
Sculptor Dwarf Irregular Galaxy — Infobox Galaxy name = Sculptor Dwarf Irregular epoch = J2000 type = IBmcite web title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database work=Results for Sculptor Dwarf Irregular url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi bin/nph… … Wikipedia
Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy — Infobox Galaxy name = SagDIG caption = SagDIG by Hubble Space Telescope credit = NASA/ESA/STScI/AURA type = IB(s)mcite web title=NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database work=Results for Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular url=http://nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi… … Wikipedia
Barred irregular galaxy — A barred irregular galaxy is an irregular version of a barred spiral galaxy. Examples include the Large Magellanic Cloud [http://arxiv.org/pdf/astro ph/9908050] and NGC 6822. [http://edoc.ub.uni muenchen.de/archive/00000082/01/Przybilla… … Wikipedia
Galaxy groups and clusters — are the largest known gravitationally bound objects to have arisen thus far in the process of cosmic structure formation.[1] They form the densest part of the large scale structure of the universe. In models for the gravitational formation of… … Wikipedia
galaxy — [n] nebula elliptical galaxy, irregular galaxy, island universe, Milky Way, spiral galaxy, star cluster, star system; concepts 370,511 … New thesaurus
Galaxy — This article is about the astronomical structure. For other uses, see Galaxy (disambiguation). NGC 4414, a typical spiral galaxy in the constellation Coma Berenices, is about 55,000 light years in diameter and approximately 60 million light… … Wikipedia
