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Noun Concept
Categories: Galaxy morphological types, Articles with short description, Elliptical galaxies
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elliptical galaxy  Bared elliptical galaxy  early-type galaxies  elliptical galaxies  giant elliptical galaxy
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An elliptical galaxy is a type of galaxy with an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless image. Wikipedia
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An elliptical galaxy is a type of galaxy with an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless image. Wikipedia
Galaxy having an approximately ellipsoidal shape and a smooth, nearly featureless brightness profile Wikidata
A galaxy having a smooth, featureless light-profile. It is one of the three main classes of galaxies originally described by Edwin Hubble in his 1936 work “The Realm of the Nebulae”. Wiktionary
IS A
galaxy
HAS KIND
type-cD galaxy
dwarf elliptical galaxy
NGC 4125
NGC 4881
irregular galaxy
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HAS INSTANCE
NGC 4121
NGC 4125
NGC 4261
NGC 4308
NGC 4627
+353 relations
FOLLOWS
lenticular galaxy
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Bared elliptical galaxy, early-type galaxies, elliptical galaxies, giant elliptical galaxy, spherical galaxy

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