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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”.

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lenticular galaxy light profile galaxy elliptical dwarf spheroidal galaxy smooth elliptical galaxies irregular galaxy
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