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== Gallery == <gallery> File:Feeling blue ESO 338-4.jpg|[[Blue compact dwarf galaxy]] ESO 338-4<ref>{{cite web |title=Feeling blue |url=https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1845a/ |website=www.spacetelescope.org |access-date=5 November 2018 |archive-date=5 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181105094515/https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1845a/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> File:A frenzy of stars IC 4710.jpg|[[IC 4710]] lies roughly 25 million light-years away in the southern constellation of [[Pavo (constellation)|Pavo]].<ref>{{cite web|title=A frenzy of stars|url=https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1809a/|website=www.spacetelescope.org|access-date=26 February 2018|archive-date=25 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025055918/https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1809a/|url-status=dead}}</ref> File:Surveying the cosmos.jpg|[[ESO 486-21]] is a spiral galaxy with a somewhat irregular and ill-defined structure.<ref>{{cite web|title=Surveying the cosmos|url=https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1725a/|website=www.spacetelescope.org|access-date=19 June 2017|archive-date=18 July 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200718145537/https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1725a/|url-status=dead}}</ref> File:Spotlight on IC 3583.jpg|Irregular galaxy [[IC 3583]] has been found to have a bar of stars running through its center.<ref>{{cite web|title=Spotlight on IC 3583|url=https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1648a/|website=www.spacetelescope.org|access-date=28 November 2016|archive-date=17 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190817191823/https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1648a/|url-status=dead}}</ref> File:A lopsided lynx NGC 2337.jpg|[[NGC 2337]] is an irregular galaxy that resides 25 million light-years away in the [[Lynx (constellation)|Lynx constellation]].<ref>{{cite web|title=A lopsided lynx|url=http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1632a/|website=www.spacetelescope.org|access-date=9 August 2016|archive-date=21 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201121154809/https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1632a/|url-status=dead}}</ref> File:A distinctly disorganised dwarf.jpg|[[UGC 4459]] is an irregular dwarf galaxy located approximately 11 million light-years away in the constellation of [[Ursa Major]].<ref>{{cite web|title=A distinctly disorganised dwarf|url=http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1613a/|access-date=29 March 2016|archive-date=25 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201025054728/https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1613a/|url-status=dead}}</ref> File:Meeting the neighbours.jpg|Dwarf irregular galaxy known as [[PGC 18431]]<ref>{{cite web|title=Meeting the neighbours|url=http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1523a/|website=www.spacetelescope.org|publisher=ESA/Hubble|access-date=8 June 2015|archive-date=27 November 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127231709/https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1523a/|url-status=dead}}</ref> File:A spattering of blue.jpg|[[IC 559]] is classified as a type Sm galaxy.<ref>{{cite web|title=A spattering of blue|url=http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1436a/|website=www.spacetelescope.org|publisher=ESA/Hubble|access-date=8 September 2014|archive-date=5 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190605094619/https://spacetelescope.org/images/potw1436a/|url-status=dead}}</ref> File:A cosmic optical illusion.jpg|Irregular dwarf galaxy [[PGC 16389]] covers its neighboring galaxy [[APMBGC 252+125-117]].<ref>{{cite news|title=A cosmic optical illusion|url=http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1333a/|access-date=20 August 2013|newspaper=ESA/Hubble Picture of the Week|archive-date=7 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180107061724/http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/potw1333a/|url-status=dead}}</ref> </gallery>
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