The optical counterpart to the radio object is a peculiar giant elliptical galaxy.
It is also a peculiar galaxy because one of its spiral arms goes out more than the other.
Associated with this peculiar galaxy is an entire cluster of galaxies.
In 1943 a graduate student in astronomy, Carl Sey- fert, described a peculiar galaxy.
With this atlas, astronomers had a sample of peculiar galaxies that they could study in more detail.
NGC 7252 is a peculiar galaxy resulting from an interaction between two galaxies that started a billion years ago.
Thus, it is also Arp 226 (the 226th entry in Arp's list of peculiar galaxies).
Significant to the scientific community, the name of the speech was given to this peculiar galaxy.
Although technically classified as a peculiar lenticular galaxy, the galaxy's structure is better described as amorphous.
A peculiar galaxy is a galaxy which is unusual in its size, shape, or composition.