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Originally Posted by Placidus
Negative dust donuts aside, that is a truly wonderful image of a wonderful galaxy. We can't wait for the next Leo season.
Read somewhere that while the Hamburger is an elliptical galaxy swallowing an edge-on spiral and chewing it up, the Sombero might be an elliptical galaxy that has encountered lots of fresh new intergalactic gas, and is forming a brand new spiral galaxy from scratch, deep inside it, not consuming it in a collision, which is why the Sombrero spiral looks so peaceful and intact.
Perhaps something like that is happening here. The spiral looks to be in such good nick. Perhaps it's a line-of-sight thing, and the big badda-boom is yet to happen.
MnT
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Interesting hypothesis. I plan to spend some time reworking the image. I got a lot of data on this one but some I wasted as it was moon affected and the difference in the no moon images was striking.
Greg.