Galaxy Zoo Talk

Unusual Spiral

  • jeffreyhrwtz by jeffreyhrwtz

    Are we seeing a possible vorwerp or a result of a colision?

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  • leeskelvin 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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  • jeffreyhrwtz by jeffreyhrwtz

    Thank you! I look forward to the new generation of telescopes that will examine these 'faint' objects!

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