What is this?
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by citywarrior
Is this a merging spiral and lenticular galayies?
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by zoob1172
#sadsim Simulated galaxy from Illustris http://www.illustris-project.org/ the site has information about the project
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by ElisabethB moderator
Just one galaxy for me. It is indeed a simulated galaxy from the Illustris data set. (more info here : https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2015/09/21/new-images-for-galaxy-zoo-part-2-illustris/ )
The blue smudges are star forming areas in the galaxy.
Hope this helps and happy hunting ! 😄
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