Spiral or Ring
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I classified this as spiral but it could be a ring? Your thoughts?
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by Budgieye moderator
For me, although the starforming areas form a nuclear ring, this doesn't make it a ringed galaxy. Some links to images..
2.2 Nucleus, nuclear bulge, and bulgeless, X-shaped bulges , nuclear rings https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=2
2.4 Ring galaxy (empty in the middle) collisional ring galaxy - created by collision that removed the inside of the galaxy) https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=2
2.5 ringed galaxy (ring around a galaxy) and pseudo-ringed galaxy, created by resonance created by bars , nuclear rings https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=2
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