How to classify this one?

Looks light a disturbed tight 2 spiral to me, but not sure ....

Posted September 11, 2012 9:54 PM

I'd throw in barred as well.

Posted September 11, 2012 9:56 PM

Looks like a 3 dimensions galaxy vieuw, like a corkscrew seen by the tip.
May be they are 2 galaxies merging and one is sligthly located before the most blue or the second, the bluer, is before thaht with a bright bulge, like a corkscrew seen from the handel to the tip .
Also it could be a galaxy, the one with a bright bulge merging an irregular blue galaxy, and an arm of the bluer is yet around the bright galaxy.
What about?

Posted January 5, 2015 2:42 PM

by ElisabethB moderator

Or as mentioned above : a disturbed two armed, barred spiral 😄

Posted January 5, 2015 3:17 PM

by Rick_N.

Disturbed bar! The lower arm seems to have been shortened towards the centre, perhaps by a merger. Maybe it is a galaxy that is just forming into a barred two arm spiral.

Posted January 5, 2015 3:18 PM