Galaxy Zoo Talk

Dark spot in center of galaxies

by Chris Howell

are the dark regions inside the bright galaxy centers of lots of these images an artifact or something there?

Posted November 28, 2014 2:19 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

The dark spots are optical artifacts caused by oversaturation.

Posted November 28, 2014 2:41 PM

Subject: AGZ0001zq5

by Weedhopper

Nice dust lane and nucleus!

Posted December 20, 2012 7:12 PM
by Terrance_L._Johnson

#merger, too!

Posted December 20, 2012 10:09 PM
by Mgorman

#Dustlane.

Posted January 21, 2013 2:50 PM
by fuzz_lightyear

IC 1464 z.02 pair/triple notam_word .

Posted March 5, 2013 5:02 PM
by lostlens

cropped image early #Spiral SA(nr) z = 0.024 GPair RadioS XrayS Sy2 NELG HII dustlane #overlap & edge-on Sa z = 0.024 no kinetics

Posted June 3, 2014 10:23 PM
by Dragonfire1

very dominant nucleus, with #dustlane. Don't think it's a merger, but a spectacular #pair!

Posted November 28, 2014 7:26 PM
by de.hawkeye

#wow

Posted December 1, 2014 4:00 PM