spiral, not elliptical?
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by rgmerkel
vary faint bared spiral, not an elliptical?
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by JeanTate in response to rgmerkel's comment.
It's certainly not a boring elliptical, that's for sure ... ellipticals have no structure, in images like SDSS and DECaLS, just a central brightness which fades slowly and steadily as you go away from that center (the nucleus)^, even the color hardly varies from center to edge.
So, yes, a sprial, and a barred one to boot (I reckon).
Hope this helps, and happy hunting! 😃
^some caveats: some galaxies that look exactly like ellipticals have dust lanes, and some have bright, star-like nuclei; however, none have bars, arms, rings, ...
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