Sentence examples for irregular galaxies from inspiring English sources

In contrast, elliptical and irregular galaxies, he said, are barren.

Two of the closest members are the Magellanic Clouds, irregular galaxies about 50 kiloparsecs away.

They also have been detected in some young irregular galaxies (e.g., the Magellanic Clouds).

Elliptical galaxies are nearly pure Population II, while irregular galaxies are dominated by a thick disk of Population I, with only a small number of Population II stars.

Irregular galaxies number only a few percent of all stellar systems and exhibit none of the regular features associated with spirals or ellipticals.

The Magellanic Clouds are irregular galaxies that share a gaseous envelope and lie about 22° apart in the sky near the south celestial pole.

NGC 625 is a dwarf irregular galaxy of apparent magnitude 11.0 and lying some 12.7 million light years distant.

It is located 870 kpc from our Solar System and around 1100 kpc from the barycentre of the Local Group the second most remote of all member galaxies after the Sagittarius Dwarf Irregular Galaxy.

Robert's Quartet (composed of the irregular galaxy NGC 87, and three spiral galaxies NGC 88, NGC 89 and NGC 92) is a group of four galaxies located around 160 million light-years away which are in the process of colliding and merging.

Due to their vicinity, nearby irregular dwarf galaxies the Magellanic Clouds provide an opportunity to obtain a global picture of the dust production in galaxies.

The Large and Small Magellanic Clouds are irregular dwarf galaxies at a distance of 50 and 61 kpc respectively (Schaefer, 2008; Szewczyk et al, 2009), and both are seen almost face-on, resulting in a low optical depth along the line-of-sight, and very little confusion and few chance superpositions.