Galaxy Zoo Talk

Whopper of a spiral galaxy

  • Whoandwhatitis by Whoandwhatitis

    This spiral galaxy is beautiful. It looks quite massive in this picture.

    How large is this galaxy, given the information in the Galaxy Zoo examine page?

    Also, the #ring around this is like nothing I've seen before. It's definitely a memorable galaxy!

    I'm nominating this one as a Daily Zoo candidate. 😃

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  • Budgieye by Budgieye moderator

    Here are some links where size of galaxies was measured. You can use them to calculate it yourself. Don't be surprised if it is smaller than our Milky Way Galaxy. Galaxies get smaller as you look back in time, because they have had fewer mergers.

    Forum: Friday 8th January, 2010. Two galaxies, the same size? by Budgieye http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=277034.msg416504#msg416504 measure the size and distance of two galaxies

    Forum: Thurs Sept 27, 2012 Measuring the size of distant galaxies by Budgieye http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=280432.0 using guesswork, wolframalpha and others.

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