Irregular galaxy

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Some galaxies show no particular organization, either because some recent event has left them in a disturbed state or because they simply lack the organizing rotation and wave motions of a spiral. These are simply called irregulars; the ones that do not result from external disturbance form, in many respects, an extension beyond Sd of the spiral sequence.