Galaxy Zoo Talk

"Constellation Galaxy", or a slowly developing Star System?

  • hyncharas by hyncharas

    At first I thought this was a Spiral Galaxy (a very faint arm/ring can be seen around the central mass), though now I'm not so sure.

    Is it a galaxy forming part of a constellation, or a star system where the dust cloud hasn't completely dissipated?

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  • fatha731 by fatha731 in response to hyncharas's comment.

    Looks like a spiral to me with some overlapping foregroundstars. What do you mean by dust clouds?

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  • hyncharas by hyncharas

    When a star system is in its infancy; developing the first planetoids around it, all you have is dust and rock that can sometimes be mistaken as galactic rings.

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  • fatha731 by fatha731

    Oh OK. It's just that dust usually has a brownish colour is these images and I couldn't see that at all. 😃

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    I second fatha431 : a galaxy (possibly faint spiral) with some overlapping foreground stars from our galaxy. No constellaton or star system here.

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  • fatha731 by fatha731 in response to ElisabethB's comment.

    "fatha431" I'm offended. 😄 😛

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Oh dear ! Typo alert ! 😄
    My apologies, fatha731

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