material

• by dderek

  hi what is the material that appears just away from the arms?

  Posted December 5, 2013 9:23 PM

• by KWillett scientist, admin, translator

  Probably background noise speckles in the image, mostly (although a little of it might be gas clouds and stars). This is an interesting galaxy; the edge of the disk cuts off really sharply at its edges.

  Posted December 5, 2013 9:32 PM

• by dderek

  thank-you

  Posted December 5, 2013 10:18 PM

• by zutopian

  When clicking on the GZ image, there is following remark displayed below it.: Artificially redshifted SDSS
  In the GZ blog there is a related article available.: http://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2013/10/15/galaxy-zoo-continues-to-evolve/

  Here is the original SDSS image.:

  
  http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/tools/chart/navi.asp?ra=192.8247&dec=27.10615&opt=

  Posted December 7, 2013 6:40 AM