Polar Ring?
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I listed this as a one-armed spiral, but I was wondering if it might be a polar ring. I don't have much experience with polar rings. 😃
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by fatha731
From what I've read from the forum they're usually 90 degrees of angle and have a different colour than the main galaxy. So it doesn't really seem like it. Maybe the small object at 1 o clock plowed through this one?
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well if it did, it looks like it. if you squint, you'll notice that there is a faint dust trail heading from the big galaxy to the smaller one.
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Sorry, no matter how I look, I can't see a real trail toward the small galaxy. I think you may be mistaking some of the optical noise that is everywhere in the frame. Our brains tend to "connect the dots" where there is no connection.
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Probably. Either way, this galaxy has some cool stuff going on in it
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by Jayomon in response to fatha731's comment.
Could that ring we see be at 90 degrees? and its other half at 90 degrees out the back (out of sight?)
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by kplee92
It looks like dust cloud or some smaller stars orbiting around the main stars in the galaxy as observed from the picture
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