Subject: AGZ000d02h

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• by FatimahAwaji

  Black ring in the middle of the galaxy. Also, what's going on below that galaxy? Is that a huge blue star?

  Posted July 29, 2017 5:23 PM

• by alex_nnn

  The blue thing is a star and that black #ring is the lane of dust ( #dustlane )

  Posted July 29, 2017 6:04 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  1/2

  Erm ! The blue thing is indeed a foreground star from our galaxy, but the 'black' ring is not dust at all !

  Posted July 29, 2017 6:19 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  2/2

  It is just the void between the centre and the spiral arms;

  Posted July 29, 2017 6:19 PM

• by zoob1172

  wide thin diffuse OLR #SAB early ETG .050748 & learly MTG .050602 edge-on boxy Sc NE

  Posted July 29, 2017 8:31 PM