a huge bar comes out of a ring

• by adamx

  Hi!
  Anyone knows what could be this one? I really like it 😃
  Adam

  Posted September 13, 2012 10:48 AM

• by PDXDave

  Very cool. Rotate it 180° and you have a "Q"

  Posted September 13, 2012 10:52 AM

• by vrooje admin, scientist

  Fish (well, maybe an eel) on a unicycle.

  Posted September 13, 2012 11:24 AM

• by ttfnrob scientist

  This is Arp 148 (also known as Mayall's Object apparently): http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0810ae/

  

  #arp148 #arp #merger

  Posted September 13, 2012 12:26 PM

• by zutopian in response to vrooje's comment.

  vrooje
  Fish (well, maybe an eel) on a unicycle.

  On Twitter there is following tweet.:

  galaxyzoo‏@galaxyzoo
  If somebody finds a galaxy that looks like a fish on a bicycle, please let us know!
  http://twitter.com/galaxyzoo/status/245443815614324736

  Posted September 13, 2012 2:28 PM

• by zutopian

  @scienceteam
  Why is this image displayed in the new GZ? That image is also #available_in_DR7!
  So I guess, that it was also displayed in one of the previous GZs.

  Posted September 13, 2012 2:32 PM

• by PDXDave

  Fish on a bicycle? Is that a reference to the old man-hating bumpersticker that sez men are as necessary for women as a bicycle for a fish?

  Posted September 13, 2012 4:45 PM

• by vrooje admin, scientist

  It's more directly a reference to the BBC Radio 4 Today interview where zookeeper Chris was asked what kind of strange resemblances there may be among so many examples of galaxies.

  But as there had been some discussion of men and women in that interview, the interviewer who asked that was most likely referencing the saying PDXDave mentioned.

  Posted September 13, 2012 6:00 PM

• by adamx in response to ttfnrob's comment.

  ttfnrob
  This is Arp 148 (also known as Mayall's Object apparently): http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0810ae/
  
  #arp148 #arp #merger

  Thank you!!

  Posted September 14, 2012 9:48 AM

• by gwnashjr in response to ttfnrob's comment.

  ttfnrob
  This is Arp 148 (also known as Mayall's Object apparently): http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0810ae/
  
  #arp148 #arp #merger

  Is it merging or emerging?

  Posted September 14, 2012 10:22 AM

• by zutopian in response to PDXDave's comment.

  PDXDave
  Very cool. Rotate it 180° and you have a "Q"

  #alphabet

  Posted September 27, 2012 1:03 PM

• by Peter_Dzwig

  See today's (friday 28th's) OotD here: http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=280430.msg616679#msg616679

  Posted September 28, 2012 11:26 PM

• by arzelkaan

  müthiş bir şey inanılmaz sanki bir süper nova gibi bir şey

  Posted September 29, 2012 8:54 PM

• by zutopian

  Here is maybe a #lookalike.:
  http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/objects/AGZ0001trx/discussions/DGZ10067nn

  Posted October 25, 2012 8:18 AM

• by mini_astronomer_Katy

  I love that ! is it merging or emerging????

  Posted October 29, 2012 12:19 AM

• by Terrance_L._Johnson

  love this merger. looks like a spaceship coming through a dimensional gate (Sorry, I've been watching waaaay too many sci-fi movies!)

  Posted October 29, 2012 2:47 AM

• by Kaman_Graves

  One galaxy has careened through the other. I'm sure the result will be a loss of their circular structures while they swirl around each other like two tadpoles in love-wishing they had a bike. 😃

  Posted October 29, 2012 9:07 AM

• by trevor_allen_faller

  Arp 148 is the staggering aftermath of an encounter between two galaxies, resulting in a ring-shaped galaxy and a long-tailed companion. The collision between the two parent galaxies produced a shockwave effect that first drew matter into the centre and then caused it to propagate outwards in a ring.

  Posted October 30, 2012 1:06 AM

• by TriDitty in response to gwnashjr's comment.

  gwnashjr

  gwnashjr
  This is Arp 148 (also known as Mayall's Object apparently): http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0810ae/
  
  #arp148 #arp #merger

  Is it merging or emerging?

  Now that's what I call thinking outside the box! Good Show!

  Posted November 3, 2012 11:52 AM

• by 1hailfire1 in response to gwnashjr's comment.

  gwnashjr

  gwnashjr
  This is Arp 148 (also known as Mayall's Object apparently): http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0810ae/
  
  #arp148 #arp #merger

  Is it merging or emerging?

  that's what she said

  Posted November 6, 2012 10:56 PM

• by Urvelniel

  Phenomenal! It looks like an edge-on galaxy colliding with an elliptical galaxy, or a nebula!

  Posted November 11, 2012 7:18 AM

• by weareedges

  it looks like an umbrella if you turn it 90 degrees anticlockwise

  Posted July 3, 2013 5:13 PM

• by klmasters scientist, admin

  Well wikipedia says it's a post merger - but it's a stub only... maybe I'll improve that when I have time (need to do a bit of reading around the models). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayall's_Object

  Modelling these systems is always an interesting topic. We used to have a Galaxy Zoo Merger project to do just that.... sometimes the solution is not unique (ie. you can get the same shapes in merging galaxies in more than one way). I'd have to read a lot more about the simulations of this particular object before I could tell you any more about it.

  Posted November 25, 2013 9:25 AM

• by ShortSighted

  It looks like chaos. Great image.

  Posted January 12, 2014 12:03 AM