Huge nursery cloud without galaxy nucleos/core region?
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by pocketom
I miss the "galaxy itself" ^^ Probably a new galaxy forming from this star cluster?
But i find this very pretty anyway...
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by williamaskew
UGC 9240 a dwarf irregular galaxy lays just outside of our local group at 91 thousand light years away. morphologically it is a magellanic irregular dwarf.#Im
Discovered by Canadian astronomer Sydney Van Der Bergh in 1959. Go Canucks!!!Posted
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by pocketom
Yeah, I've seen on first sight it must be close. Wonder nobody commented this before, it's such a nice detailed object 😃
In 1.000.000 years it will be a new small spiral galaxy perhaps. Welcome our new neighbours!
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by williamaskew
It is a field galaxy so without neighbours to transfer the 'Conservation of angular Momentum' I think this would need a monster black hole to get it spinning
ive got a collection of globular clusters you might like http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/collections/CGZS0000hnPosted