Lens?
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by borad
Could the brighter arc in the north of the galaxy a gravitational lens?
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by JeanTate in response to borad's comment.
It certainly looks like one, doesn't it?
Here it is in SDSS DR8 (it's SDSS J110946.24+004849.4):
Perhaps it's just an unusually circular arm?
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by Thomas_J
What a beauty 😃 Possibly a winding ring of captured material.
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by c_cld in response to JeanTate's comment.
SDSS J110946.24+004849.4 http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr12/en/tools/explore/Summary.aspx?id=1237648722298994832
Better viewed in Decals DR2 as #ringed
http://legacysurvey.org/viewer/?layer=decals-dr2&ra=167.44267895&dec=0.81372813&zoom=16
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