Galaxy or nova?

• by DecahedronVoid

  I've not seen one like this before. Is it a galaxy or a supernova? If it is a galaxy, how did it get like that, what'sgoing on?

  Posted May 15, 2017 8:54 AM

• by zoob1172

  Simulated galaxy from Illustris http://www.illustris-project.org/ the site has information about the project

  Posted May 15, 2017 10:36 AM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Many of these simulated galaxies have a nuclear ring. I hope the researchers will eventually tell us how it got calculated

  Illustris Sept 2015 (classifying simulated galaxies https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0002eys

  Posted May 16, 2017 7:25 AM