Galaxy Zoo Talk

Blue ring

  • salhol by salhol

    This galaxy looks very unusual with a very noticible blue ring around it - albeit uneven. Could this be new stars forming around the edge?

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Hi salhol and welcome to the Zoo

    This looks like a very lovely disturbed spiral to me. Everything blue is/are star forming areas in the galaxy.

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  • firejuggler by firejuggler

    unfortunatly, this is a simulated galaxy, ir man made, so this one doesn'"t exist

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Anyway, just classify it as you would any image !

    Why unfortunately ? Your classifications of these sims are extremely valuable !
    So, keep up the good work ! 😄

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  • firejuggler by firejuggler

    I always find it slightly disheartening to find out that a visually beautiful galaxy isn't find in the wild but is generated by a computer program. I'll continue to classify all of them obviously.

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    In this version of GalaxyZoo we have the DECaLS and the Illustris datasets to classify. And every classification is extremely valuable;Just give it your best shot ! 😄

    Happy hunting ! 😄

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