lenticular galaxy
Scientific-
A galaxy having a central bulge surrounded by a flattened disk with no pattern of spiral arms. Lenticular galaxies are intermediate in the Hubble classification system between elliptical and spiral forms and are classified using the designation S0, or SB0 if they have a bar of stars, gas, and dust through the nucleus. Like spiral galaxies, they are disk-shaped with a central bulge, but like elliptical galaxies they contain relatively little gas and dust.
-
Compare elliptical galaxy irregular galaxy spiral galaxy See more at Hubble classification system
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
An over-massive black hole in the compact lenticular galaxy NGC 1277.
From Nature
The object is classified as a lenticular galaxy, with aspects of both elliptical and spiral galaxies.
From National Geographic
The object is classified as a lenticular galaxy, with aspects of both elliptical and spiral galaxies.
From National Geographic
The object is classified as a lenticular galaxy, with aspects of both elliptical and spiral galaxies.
From National Geographic
Near it sits a lens-shaped or lenticular galaxy called IC 4970, which appears to have crashed through the spiral in recent astronomical times.
From BBC
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
