im confuse
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im not sure what this pictures means
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JeanTate
in response to karla.guirola's comment.
Welcome to Galaxy Zoo, karla.guirola!
This is a galaxy, one with features (i.e. other than a smooth shape with color and brightness that varies in a simple, smooth way).
To me, the pale blue arc at the bottom is an arm, with on-going star-formation; so this is a spiral (or disk) galaxy.
Normally, disk galaxies have only one central (or more or less central) round blob; they're usually yellow(-ish), and called the bulge (some disk galaxies do not have bulges; these are much sought after by astronomers).
However, this one seems to have two bulges! 😮
Most likely this is an overlap ... there's a smaller 'smooth' (elliptical) galaxy in the foreground of the disk galaxy (or maybe it's actually a rather bigger elliptical in the background?). But I guess it could also be two galaxies interacting, a merger (however fuzz_lightyear, who commented a year ago, seems to thing not).
Happy hunting! 😃
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