explain what you guys see
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travisxayasy
this is the galaxy of the straightest galaxy line ive ever seen
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Budgieye
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yes, very straight
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JeanTate
in response to travisxayasy's comment.
Very nice edge-on disk galaxy! 😃
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Seems like X
http://imagine.legacysurvey.org/?ra=359.8694&dec=1.5830&zoom=16&layer=decals-resid-dr1j
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Budgieye
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I had looked at the nucleus and wondered if there was an X shape, then decided that if there was, it wan't very strong.
Background info
X shaped nucleus indicates a double nucleus, two bars and the last stage of merging galaxies.
2.2 Nucleus, nuclear bulge, and bulgeless, X-shaped bulges , nuclear rings http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=2&comment_id=53d8b8190d43f776b000107c
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