Resonance morphology or simple SBb?
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by
arenam
When I first saw this galaxy, the arms appeared very ringlike. Later I enlarged the image on SkyServer and noticed that not only do the arms seem to form rings, but there appears to be a ring around the bar. The outer rings are also very faint in uv. All of this supports that it has a resonance morphology, however the arms are not quite symmetric, suggesting that it may just be a run of the mill barred spiral galaxy.
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