Off-center bulge?

• by Furiat

  This one is particularly odd. Very disturbed, yet clearly spiral. The tighter edge is starforming my guess, but do the clear spiral remnants indicate a late-stage merge?

  Posted June 9, 2015 5:27 PM

• by Capella05 moderator

  This might explain why 😃

  From SkServer (the orientation is slightly different):

  

  See the other galaxy at the top of the image?

  Posted June 9, 2015 6:48 PM

• by Furiat in response to Capella05's comment.

  Yes, but what does it meeeeean? They're kind of far apart from each other...

  Posted June 10, 2015 11:49 AM

• by Capella05 moderator in response to Furiat's comment.

  Not that far apart in astronomical terms!

  It could mean one of two things:

  • that they have interacted with each other in the past and are moving away from each other (a fly by), or;
  • they are starting to interact with each other and are moving towards each other and could possibly merge.

  Impossible to say which just by looking at this image 😃

  Posted June 10, 2015 6:00 PM