Polar-ring
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by williamaskew
This is an incredible polar ring surrounding the elliptical
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by alan1001
I would suggest it might be a #polarring with #dustlane - beautiful image
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by elizabeth_s
#polar ring galaxy PRC A-01
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Wonderful gyroscope-like shape with that dust lane!
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by klmasters scientist, admin
That's lovely. Hope it's of use to Bill. 😃
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by dweilant
Could the ring be rotating about the major axis of the ellipsoid? If so, then it would be an equatorial ring.
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by Isolda
It could also be some kind of gyroscope
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by dweilant
A hypothesis to explain this ring: The nucleus of this galaxy looks like an ellipsoid. A family of confocal elliptical current loops circulate within this nucleus. These current loops create a surrounding magnetic field associated with an ellipsoid. A plane perpendicular to the major "X" axis and passing thru the "Y" "Z" axes will have a circular zone of magnetic equilibrium (balance). Charged particles get trapped in this magnetic equilibrium zone between the North and South poles.... in other words, an equatorial ring. Ref: www.geomag.us/info/Smaus/Doc/ngdc720.pdf
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by Budgieye moderator
looks better in Galaxy Zoo image than in the dr8 image
http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237679438273183783
not in dr7 footprint
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by jlfqam
younger version of NGC 4650A with no stars
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by ElisabethB moderator
Why on earth would you think that this galaxy has no stars ! 😮
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