Galaxy Zoo Talk

Odd ring/jet/tail

  • adamland by adamland

    I'm having a hard time identifying what I'm seeing here. It looks mostly like a featureless elliptical with a ring on the bottom side and something else on the top side.

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Hi adamland and welcome to the Zoo !

    The thing in the centre is the bulky bar of this disturbed spiral galaxy.

    Happy hunting ! 😄

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  • adamland by adamland

    So the bright core plus slightly less bright ellipse area is just the core of a spiral that has been disrupted, and the faint lower half ring and upper wisp are the disturbed remnants?

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Yep ! 😄

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