Galaxy Zoo Talk
Nice multi-armed #starburst galaxy.
Amazing and beautiful. Incredible symmetry.
Beautiful #Barred #Ring galaxy
Beautiful multi-arm #barred spiral.
Gorgeous #barred spiral with inner and outer #ring .
Beautiful face-on #barred spiral with a very bright nucleus and almost perfectly symmetrical arms.
#Irregular #Merger #Debris
#Beautiful #Spiral #Bar #Dustlane #Satellite
#Beautiful #Spiral #Bar
A barred galaxy has a bar of stars across the nucleus. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_spiral_galaxy
The white spot is the nucleus. It has the highest star density, so it's brightest.
I would call this oblique. Not quite face on, not quite edge on. In the middle. Here's an edge-on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_5023
Looks like a loose barred spiral that been disturbed.
Nice one! Lots of dust and star forming.
Nice Barred-Ring.
Wow. The X across the nucleus is really cool.
A little group of stars. The pattern matching software gets it wrong sometimes.
Looks like four stars. Zoom into this: http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=102.75524898&dec=-16.77067045
Zoom in a bit: http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=98.02183369&dec=-19.70233694
The orange objects are galaxies. The others are stars. The galaxies appear to be part of a small cluster.
An overexposed foreground star.
http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=115.49367859&dec=-12.68439924
It is beautiful. We're looking past lots of foreground stars at a distant background galaxy.
It is very reddened and nebulous. Probably a very distant galaxy.
The bright star is tens, hundreds or maybe even thousands of light years away. The galaxy is many millions of light-years distant.
These are overexposed foreground stars.
A satellite passed in front of the telescope imaging area while the green filter was exposing.
Or, possibly, an #AlienWeapon!
This looks like a collision. I believe the green clumps are glowing gas clouds that have been heated and/or ionized in the collision. Plasma
Interesting that the outer arms are pulled into long tails. I suspect the fuzzy blob galaxy in the upper right made a flyby.
Those are foreground stars.
The two blue-white-violet objects are overexposed stars in the foreground.
Probably, yes. Looks like a star trail there from an interaction.
Generally, light streaks like this are due to a bright star just out of the field of view. They're called diffraction spikes.
It's a satellite trail. It passed in front of the telescope while the green filter was imaging.
"...the object focused on looks like it has a faint spiral pattern""
Some of these are really tough to call. Do your best, I guess.
That's a satellite that passed in front of the telescope when the green filter was exposing.
You're right, great photo!
The blue object is a star in the Milky Way that the telescope is looking past.
Just a pair of stars, overexposed. Or, possibly, disembodied eyes.
Possibly the stars thinning out and activating only a few pixels in the camera.
I would say yes. There are streams of stars between them.
Wonder what the comet-like object is near the core? That's realy unusual.
It does have overlapping spheres, so maybe yes. Maybe not. Hard to tell.
Almost looks like a nascent barred ring. There's a star forming region off center. There' a white cloud due west which might be the culprit.
Possibly. Possibly a star.
Amazing image though.
Normally I'd agree with KitKat, but I don't see any disturbance at all. Possibly just a line of sight thing with the dust lane galaxy closer
Possibly a dwarf satellite galaxy. There doesn't seem to be any sign of gravitational disturbance though, so maybe just inthe line of sight.
Nice barred spiral, just past being edge on. Reminds me of Andromeda.
I wonder if any off the floaters are actual dwarf galaxies in orbit? Maybe they're disturbing the arms.
I'm always impressed by the fluorescent colors in these things.
Nice! That star really sets it off.
Do you mean the nucleus or the wider image?
Yes, but possibly MUCH farther away considering how red it is.
It's a satellite trail across the field of view of the telescope while the green filter exposure was in process.
Neither one looks particularly disturbed. My guess is it's an optical pair, but not a physical pair.
Artifact. You can actually see the secondary mirror struts (in the telescope tube at 90 deg) the diffraction spikes are so clear.
Agree. Very cool.
Yes. Exactly. That's why eyes are better than machines. Once you know what you're looking at.
This is a combination of: A masked bright star (right) a satellite streak (left). Classify these as (optical) artifacts.
Later, astronomers can gather all the barred spirals for research. Or all the merging galaxies, or all the round ellipticals. Hope that help
People are better at pattern analysis than software (generally). They're trying to get all these objects sorted by category and features.
Yes, but generally you're trying to visually classify the object at the center of the image by basic criteria: Smooth or spiral? etc.
Wow. Good one. Reminds me of M-51.
http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=25.04275821&dec=50.39638799
That's a diffraction spike from a bright star just below the edge.
That is a pair of stars (possibly a close binary pair) here in the Milky Way. They are in the line of sight of the image by coincidence.
That is a foreground star here in the Milky Way. You're looking past those stars out into the universe. You'll see that fairly often.
Agree. Strange. No idea what that is.
The objects at the top (north) are foreground stars.
They're faint and distorted. Maybe an early merger in the distant past.
Just viewed it and it looked normal to me. So who knows?
Agree, though, there appears to be a trailing arm or a tidal bridge to something. Possibly a faint dwarf galaxy in orbit around it.
It does look that way, yes. However, the stars are here in the Milky Way. The galaxy if far out into the universe.
Looks that way. Possibly one forward, one back. But, yes, open or extended.
Extremely faint nebulous objects. Probably proto-galaxies.
http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=277.69877716&dec=22.11101122
I think most of those sphere's are actually foreground stars.
Quite possibly. There's seems to be a tidal bridge building up there, doesn't it? Good catch.
Nice!
It's definitely not a galaxy, however. So classify as artifact.
I think that may be a real nebula: http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=83.3652065&dec=-0.63803613
Yes, exactly. I'd call it a tight, 2-arm spiral, no bar.
Yes, very faint. Either very, very small or very, very far away. I'd call it smooth, in-between, irregular or disturbed.
The diffraction spikes make me think this is probably a star.
Awesome!
Possibly blue light from the star on the right washing over onto those pixels during the exposure. Just a guess.
Very cool image though. 😃
I think the two bright blue and one bright yellow object are foreground stars. The nearby fuzzies are all galaxies.
That is cool. A lot of these would make great pieces of art.
Agreed. #Pinwheel
And possibly a binary star pair.
Interesting how the spiral arms begin just behind the bar. Wonder why that is?
#TidalTail What are the chances of virtual twins appearing in the same image and what appears to be the same distance?
The way the bar goes clear through the galaxy make me wonder if it's an artifact of the camera.
Anyone know why there is so much RGB noise in this image?
Looks like a corner of a globular cluster! See, you are lucky.
Beautiful spiral with blue arms, a small, seemingly barred nucleus and a companion. Just thought it was a nice image.
#TidalTail Possible interacting pair?
I agree. Fascinating.
Wasn't sure how to classify this. In the end I went with ring because I don't see any indication of the arms moving in towards the nucleus.
Ring?
I wonder if the smaller galaxy in the image is the one that moved through? Or would it be completely disturbed after that?
Wow. #Beautiful. The tiny one due north looks like another beauty.
Clearly some sort of energy beam is splitting that galaxy in half. #IntergalacticWeapon 😃
Interesting. That makes me wonder, are we seeing images taken through a set of RGB filters?
Good catch. I would've missed that!
This looks like a very highly disturbed barred spiral to me. Interesting.
Nice multi-armed #starburst galaxy.
Amazing and beautiful. Incredible symmetry.
Beautiful #Barred #Ring galaxy
Beautiful multi-arm #barred spiral.
Gorgeous #barred spiral with inner and outer #ring .
Beautiful face-on #barred spiral with a very bright nucleus and almost perfectly symmetrical arms.
#Irregular #Merger #Debris
#Beautiful #Spiral #Bar #Dustlane #Satellite
#Beautiful #Spiral #Bar
A barred galaxy has a bar of stars across the nucleus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barred_spiral_galaxy
The white spot is the nucleus. It has the highest star density, so it's brightest.
I would call this oblique. Not quite face on, not quite edge on. In the middle.
Here's an edge-on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_5023
Looks like a loose barred spiral that been disturbed.
Nice one! Lots of dust and star forming.
Nice Barred-Ring.
Wow. The X across the nucleus is really cool.
A little group of stars. The pattern matching software gets it wrong sometimes.
Looks like four stars. Zoom into this:
http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=102.75524898&dec=-16.77067045
Zoom in a bit:
http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=98.02183369&dec=-19.70233694
The orange objects are galaxies. The others are stars. The galaxies appear to be part of a small cluster.
An overexposed foreground star.
http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=115.49367859&dec=-12.68439924
It is beautiful. We're looking past lots of foreground stars at a distant background galaxy.
It is very reddened and nebulous. Probably a very distant galaxy.
The bright star is tens, hundreds or maybe even thousands of light years away. The galaxy is many millions of light-years distant.
These are overexposed foreground stars.
A satellite passed in front of the telescope imaging area while the green filter was exposing.
Or, possibly, an #AlienWeapon!
A satellite passed in front of the telescope imaging area while the green filter was exposing.
This looks like a collision. I believe the green clumps are glowing gas clouds that have been heated and/or ionized in the collision. Plasma
Interesting that the outer arms are pulled into long tails. I suspect the fuzzy blob galaxy in the upper right made a flyby.
Those are foreground stars.
The two blue-white-violet objects are overexposed stars in the foreground.
Probably, yes. Looks like a star trail there from an interaction.
Generally, light streaks like this are due to a bright star just out of the field of view. They're called diffraction spikes.
It's a satellite trail. It passed in front of the telescope while the green filter was imaging.
"...the object focused on looks like it has a faint spiral pattern""
Some of these are really tough to call. Do your best, I guess.
That's a satellite that passed in front of the telescope when the green filter was exposing.
You're right, great photo!
The blue object is a star in the Milky Way that the telescope is looking past.
Just a pair of stars, overexposed. Or, possibly, disembodied eyes.
Possibly the stars thinning out and activating only a few pixels in the camera.
I would say yes. There are streams of stars between them.
Wonder what the comet-like object is near the core? That's realy unusual.
It does have overlapping spheres, so maybe yes. Maybe not. Hard to tell.
Almost looks like a nascent barred ring. There's a star forming region off center. There' a white cloud due west which might be the culprit.
Possibly. Possibly a star.
Amazing image though.
Normally I'd agree with KitKat, but I don't see any disturbance at all. Possibly just a line of sight thing with the dust lane galaxy closer
Possibly a dwarf satellite galaxy. There doesn't seem to be any sign of gravitational disturbance though, so maybe just inthe line of sight.
Nice barred spiral, just past being edge on. Reminds me of Andromeda.
I wonder if any off the floaters are actual dwarf galaxies in orbit? Maybe they're disturbing the arms.
I'm always impressed by the fluorescent colors in these things.
Nice! That star really sets it off.
Do you mean the nucleus or the wider image?
Yes, but possibly MUCH farther away considering how red it is.
It's a satellite trail across the field of view of the telescope while the green filter exposure was in process.
It's a satellite trail across the field of view of the telescope while the green filter exposure was in process.
Neither one looks particularly disturbed. My guess is it's an optical pair, but not a physical pair.
Artifact. You can actually see the secondary mirror struts (in the telescope tube at 90 deg) the diffraction spikes are so clear.
Agree. Very cool.
Yes. Exactly. That's why eyes are better than machines. Once you know what you're looking at.
This is a combination of: A masked bright star (right) a satellite streak (left). Classify these as (optical) artifacts.
Later, astronomers can gather all the barred spirals for research. Or all the merging galaxies, or all the round ellipticals. Hope that help
People are better at pattern analysis than software (generally). They're trying to get all these objects sorted by category and features.
Yes, but generally you're trying to visually classify the object at the center of the image by basic criteria: Smooth or spiral? etc.
Wow. Good one. Reminds me of M-51.
http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=25.04275821&dec=50.39638799
That's a diffraction spike from a bright star just below the edge.
That is a pair of stars (possibly a close binary pair) here in the Milky Way. They are in the line of sight of the image by coincidence.
That is a foreground star here in the Milky Way. You're looking past those stars out into the universe. You'll see that fairly often.
Agree. Strange. No idea what that is.
The objects at the top (north) are foreground stars.
They're faint and distorted. Maybe an early merger in the distant past.
Just viewed it and it looked normal to me. So who knows?
Agree, though, there appears to be a trailing arm or a tidal bridge to something. Possibly a faint dwarf galaxy in orbit around it.
It does look that way, yes. However, the stars are here in the Milky Way. The galaxy if far out into the universe.
Looks that way. Possibly one forward, one back. But, yes, open or extended.
Extremely faint nebulous objects. Probably proto-galaxies.
http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=277.69877716&dec=22.11101122
I think most of those sphere's are actually foreground stars.
Quite possibly. There's seems to be a tidal bridge building up there, doesn't it? Good catch.
Nice!
It's definitely not a galaxy, however. So classify as artifact.
I think that may be a real nebula:
http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=83.3652065&dec=-0.63803613
Yes, exactly. I'd call it a tight, 2-arm spiral, no bar.
Yes, very faint. Either very, very small or very, very far away. I'd call it smooth, in-between, irregular or disturbed.
The diffraction spikes make me think this is probably a star.
Awesome!
Nice!
Possibly blue light from the star on the right washing over onto those pixels during the exposure. Just a guess.
Very cool image though. 😃
I think the two bright blue and one bright yellow object are foreground stars. The nearby fuzzies are all galaxies.
That is cool. A lot of these would make great pieces of art.
Agreed. #Pinwheel
And possibly a binary star pair.
Interesting how the spiral arms begin just behind the bar. Wonder why that is?
#TidalTail What are the chances of virtual twins appearing in the same image and what appears to be the same distance?
The way the bar goes clear through the galaxy make me wonder if it's an artifact of the camera.
Anyone know why there is so much RGB noise in this image?
Looks like a corner of a globular cluster! See, you are lucky.
Beautiful spiral with blue arms, a small, seemingly barred nucleus and a companion. Just thought it was a nice image.
#TidalTail Possible interacting pair?
I agree. Fascinating.
Wasn't sure how to classify this. In the end I went with ring because I don't see any indication of the arms moving in towards the nucleus.
Ring?
I wonder if the smaller galaxy in the image is the one that moved through? Or would it be completely disturbed after that?
Wow. #Beautiful. The tiny one due north looks like another beauty.
Clearly some sort of energy beam is splitting that galaxy in half. #IntergalacticWeapon 😃
Interesting. That makes me wonder, are we seeing images taken through a set of RGB filters?
Good catch. I would've missed that!
This looks like a very highly disturbed barred spiral to me. Interesting.