Mystery object
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by HMB6EQUJ5
Noted in past observations...there is a strange formation just next to this edge on spiral.
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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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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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