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English: The "tuning fork" diagram of the Hubble system of classifying galactic morphology.
  • E0 − E7: elliptic galaxies, progressively more eccentric.
  • S0: lenticular galaxies
  • Sa, Sb, Sc: spiral galaxies
  • SBa, SBb, SBc: barred spiral galaxies
  • Irr: irregular galaxies.
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