Between spirals and ellipticals there is an intermediate case, that of lenticular galaxies. Like the spirals, they have a large nucleus and a disc, but, like the ellipticals, they lack helical arms and have a relatively poor interstellar medium.
The lenticular galaxy NGC 5866 at 45 million light-years photographed by the space telescope
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