irregular galaxy

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In early observations, the burst appeared to have originated near an unidentifiable, amorphous blob, which astronomers initially thought was either a single, irregular galaxy or a group of three distant galaxies.

From Science Daily

But NGC 6822 is an example of an irregular galaxy.

From BBC

But the light signature revealed that the object was indeed located in a small, irregular galaxy about 500 million light-years from Earth.

From Scientific American

At the edge of the small, irregular galaxy that he was studying in the constellation Centaurus, he saw a large burst of light brighter than the entire galaxy itself that had not been there before.

From Time Magazine Archive