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irregular galaxy
noun as in galaxy
Example Sentences
In early observations, the burst appeared to have originated near an unidentifiable, amorphous blob, which astronomers initially thought was either a single, irregular galaxy or a group of three distant galaxies.
But NGC 6822 is an example of an irregular galaxy.
But the light signature revealed that the object was indeed located in a small, irregular galaxy about 500 million light-years from Earth.
At the edge of the small, irregular galaxy that he was studying in the constellation Centaurus, he saw a large burst of light brighter than the entire galaxy itself that had not been there before.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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