Showing posts with label elongated arms. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elongated arms. Show all posts

Monday, 23 July 2007

SDSS Ref. No. 587739706342899883

G. Williams sends in this interesting image of an anti-clockwise spiral with highly elongated arms (possibly the result of a merger). G. Williams also notes that "Weirdly, something that must be a distant edge-on spiral is almost parallel to one of the arms." Interesting...

http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587739706342899883

SDSS Ref. No. 587742061061603530

Another anti-clockwise spiral, this time with elongated arms. Sent in by A. Manton.

http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587742061061603530