Galaxy Zoo Talk

Lenticular With Prominent Dust Lane

  • StereoSpace by StereoSpace

    #DustLane

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  • kimae247 by kimae247

    The dust lane is very off center. Can someone care explaining?

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  • williamaskew by williamaskew

    if you were looking at it from a perfect edge on perspective (perpendicular) it would be right down the centre but you are looking at the front of an ellipse because the perpendicular is off by approx 10deg.

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Just to say that this is not an elliptical galaxy. it's a disk or spiral galaxy seen almost edge one with a gorgeous dustlane !

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