Galaxy Zoo Talk

Mystery object

  • HMB6EQUJ5 by HMB6EQUJ5

    Noted in past observations...there is a strange formation just next to this edge on spiral.

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    It's a disturbed two armed spiral. No way to tell, just from this image, if it is closer or further away than the central galaxy. The central galaxy doens't look disturbed, so no interaction here for me.

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  • vrooje by vrooje admin, scientist

    Agreed -- that smaller companion looks like it might be disturbed from an interaction with something, but the larger central galaxy doesn't look disrupted. If I got the smaller companion galaxy as the central object I'd classify that as disturbed and I'd probably tag it here, but as the central disk doesn't look disrupted I'd probably ignore it in this classification. Others may disagree though. 😃

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