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irregular galaxy

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irregular galaxy [i′reg·yə·lər ′gal·ik·sē]
(astronomy)
A galaxy which shows no definite order or shape, except that of a general flattened appearance.
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The radio supernova was discovered on April 8 in M82, a small irregular galaxy located nearly 12 million light years from Earth in the M81 galaxy group, by the Very Large Array, a New Mexico facility operated by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO).
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Neff suggests that gravitational pull from another galaxy that passed nearby, perhaps the irregular galaxy M82, could have helped form the ring-shaped feature.
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