Field of Dreams, er, of Eos

by JeanTate

I came across this recently; lots of Eos (edge-on spirals), and not so many face-on (or otherwise inclined) ones (just one?). Ain't the universe a strange and wonderful place! 😃

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It's centered on SDSS J004629.70-001403.8

Posted May 19, 2015 4:51 PM

by ElisabethB moderator

A bit more info from our very own NGC3314 😉

http://cosmoquest.org/forum/showthread.php?156971-Spirals-edge-on-only-(no-face-ons)-how-unusual&p=2290250 #post2290250

Posted May 20, 2015 7:13 PM

by JeanTate in response to ElisabethB's comment.

Thanks Els.

That CosmoQuest thread kicked off quite a bit of discussion, and it is great to see Bill Keel joining in! 😃

Since his post, I've written some, one of which includes an explanation of why the GZ classifications we zooites did aren't of much help for this field/image (CQuestian JohnD asked "Is this something that the Galaxy Zoo data and statistics can answer?").

Posted May 22, 2015 4:44 PM