Unusual Spiral
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by jeffreyhrwtz
Are we seeing a possible vorwerp or a result of a colision?
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by leeskelvin scientist
This is a disturbed barred spiral galaxy. Most likely its outer dist was perturbed by a recent interaction with another system.
There's a great follow up paper by Sandor Kruk specifically on these type of offset-bar spiral galaxies here: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.00007 !
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by jeffreyhrwtz
Thank you! I look forward to the new generation of telescopes that will examine these 'faint' objects!
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