Galexy with irregular spiral arm!

• by KieranViner

  Posted May 4, 2015 6:39 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Very disturbed, clumpy barred spiral.

  Posted May 4, 2015 8:43 PM

• by KieranViner

  Any explanations on how this could form in such a way?

  Posted May 4, 2015 8:45 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Clumpy galaxies: we are at the frontiers of knowledge! Galaxy Zoo citizen scientists, like you, are collecting data on clumpy galaxies, then the scientists will come up with a model. Until then, see this blog

  A brief history of clumpy galaxies http://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2010/05/25/a-brief-history-of-clumpy-galaxies/ " we can directly see how the galaxy population has evolved just by looking further and further away......the galaxy types [...] generally become “messier” the further back in time one looks. Furthermore, there appeared to be types of distant galaxies that we do not see today. Many of these galaxies comprise knots or clumps. In particular, many galaxies were found with an appearance of several clumps arranged in a line, and were named “chain galaxies”. Galaxies with two clumps were simply named “doubles”. There were also galaxies with the appearance of one clump with a tail, appropriately named “tadpole galaxies”! .....The extra depth of these data has revealed a population of clumpy galaxies that do not appear as chains, but rather more circular groups of clumps. These have been named “clump clusters”.....Further studies of clumpy galaxies confirm that they are very young galaxies with lots of star formation occurring in the massive clumps, which may be embedded within a slightly older, smoother distribution of star

  Posted May 4, 2015 10:50 PM

• by KieranViner

  Thanks! That's a lot of help 😃

  Posted May 5, 2015 4:42 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Welcome 😃

  Posted May 5, 2015 7:12 PM