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Originally Posted by madbadgalaxyman
As mentioned in previous post, there seems to be a ring structure, seen nearly edge-on, in Ken's image.
I have just found an 8 micron image, which should mostly show the dust within this galaxy, and without most of the overlying clutter of population I material, and there is indeed a ring structure in this galaxy......
Here is the 8 micrometers image of this galaxy from the Spitzer Space Telescope:
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I think I can give myself a "pat on the back" for good spotting in the more cluttered and entropic image at visible wavelengths!
There have been a couple of studies of the Near-infrared morphology of this galaxy, if anyone is interested. |
Very Cool! Thanks for pointing this out as it makes what I saw in the processing easier to understand! I have always looked at imaging processing like space exploration as if you dig deep enough you sometimes see things you have not seen as well before. The slight warp to the galaxy shows a past interaction and I did look for star streams in the data but could not find any.
Thanks again for posting the interesting data on this amazing galaxy.