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| irregular galaxy comparison table | |||||||||||||
| Subject | has declination | has right ascension | is part of | is a kind of | has diameter | is an instance of | has synonym | has magnitude | be part of | has image | has definition | has distance | orbit |
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| faint blue galaxy | irregular galaxy | A distant, irregularly shaped galaxy in which a large amount of star formation is taking place. | |||||||||||
| IC 1613 | Local Group | irregular galaxy | |||||||||||
| Magellanic Cloud | naked eye object | Two small irregular (or possibly barred spiral) galaxies (satellites of the Milky Way galaxy) about 50-60 kpc (LMC, in Dorado) and 60-70 kpc (SMC, in Toucana) distant, visible to the naked eye from the southern hemisphere. Both clouds contain mainly Population I stars. The LMC contains numerous ob stars and at least 10 stars that are an order of magnitude brighter (mv = - 9) than any supergiants known in our galaxy. It also contains several times our galaxy's concentration of interstellar matter. | |||||||||||
| NGC 4214 | irregular galaxy |  | 13 million light years | ||||||||||
| NGC 5195 | +47d16m05s | 13h29m58.7s | Local Group | 5.8 × 4.6 arcminutes | irregular galaxy | M51b | 10.45 | Canes Venatici |  | ||||
| NGC 6822 | -14d48m05s | 19h44m56.1s | Local Group | 2 kpc | irregular galaxy |  | 600 kpc from Milky Way galaxy | ||||||
| Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte | -15d27m51s | 00h01m57.9s | Local Group | 11.5 × 4.0 arcminute | irregular galaxy | WLM | 11.03 | A dwarf E5 elliptical galaxy, sometimes considered a member of the Local Group. | 4.2 million light years |
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