bad spiral
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by reishi
Can anyone tell me why this spiral is distorted? Never seen one like this before. Thanks!
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by walfy
Most likely a recent merger, still sporting an odd shape, will settle in shortly.
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by fupper
How beautiful! Would be right at home in a Japanese watercolor painting. Yes, I agree most probably distorted by either a) recent merging, or b) being pulled out of orbit by another galaxy.
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by groveda
A triangle too
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i don't think it was a merger but a flyby where there was a close encounter and the gravity distorted the spiral and extended the arm. note there is only one arm
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by dweilant
The distortion may be the result of only one arm rotating inside a parabolic spiral arm. It acts like a centrifuge causing periodic fluctuations in the gravitational field. Instead of "bad spiral", I would call this the #Centrifuge Galaxy. #Triangle Galaxy would be another descriptive name.
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