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• by tac1017

  BEAUTIFUL! GORGEOUS! Not to sound dumb, but I want dibs on this galaxy!

  Posted October 4, 2015 6:21 PM

• by tac1017

  looks like a forced spiral galaxy because of a binary black hole system

  Posted October 4, 2015 6:21 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Gorgeous #merger !

  Posted October 4, 2015 6:28 PM

• by turelli

  #Seyfert_2

  Posted October 4, 2015 6:32 PM

• by tac1017

  @2 below

  thank you! If I had to give this galaxy a name, I would call it the Partners' Galaxy. It looks like two partners keeping a spiral!

  Posted October 4, 2015 6:48 PM

• by tac1017

  Okay. this galaxy is just a little bigger than half the size of the milky way, at 53767 light years across. Quite big if you asked me!

  Posted October 4, 2015 9:52 PM

• by tac1017

  Might call it the twin pearl galaxy instead

  Posted October 5, 2015 1:46 PM

• by vrooje admin, scientist

  What a lovely example of a merger in progress.

  Posted October 5, 2015 2:36 PM

• by tac1017

  Thanks. I might invest my time studying the twin pearl galaxy

  Posted October 5, 2015 3:02 PM

• by Susan_Sharp

  merger ? did not think that..i was wrong

  Posted October 22, 2015 3:36 AM

• by dorion

  when a merger goes right

  Posted November 8, 2015 8:51 PM

• by Alpha-Orionis

  This is stunning!

  Posted November 15, 2015 8:21 AM

• by nyjtm

  Gorgeous in DECaLS browser!

  Posted March 19, 2016 3:34 PM