Galaxy Zoo Talk

Lensing or dust ring?

  • Voronov by Voronov

    There seems to be something that looks like a ring over the main part of the galaxy, but also it connects to the main part.
    perfectly drawn image

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  • Rick_N. by Rick_N.

    enter image description here
    http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237680474435420859

    I think that on the more zoomed-out image it looks like a dust ring.

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  • Budgieye by Budgieye moderator

    Amazing. My vote is for barred spiral and ringed twice. There is probably a PhD in this for someone.

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