Galaxy Zoo Talk

Whirlpool Galaxy?

  • medicinemandan by medicinemandan

    Could this be a whirlpool galaxy?

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    See my comment to the left !

    Happy hunting ! 😄

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  • medicinemandan by medicinemandan in response to ElisabethB's comment.

    Where is your comment located? I don't see it on the left.

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  • Budgieye by Budgieye moderator

    Hmm.. I don't see ElisabethB's comment either. Maybe she was thinking of her other post to you. Well, maybe she was going to say is that the Whirlpool Galaxy is a large galaxy that is "close" to our Milky Way galaxy. It looks a bit whirlpoolish, but I suppose most spirals would.

    The two points of light are foreground stars in our galaxy.

    Am I close? ElisabethB?

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Oh dear ! I must have not clicked on submit ! (insert ambarrassed smiley)

    So sorry, everyone ! And Budgieye is right : two foreground stars, conveniently placed at either side of the spiral galaxy.

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  • medicinemandan by medicinemandan in response to ElisabethB's comment.

    Thank you very much for the reply. I'm having a lot of fun looking through all of these images, and i'm very pleased to know there are people i can discuss interesting findings with.

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