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IRN42134 - Spectrohm Galaxy by motaywo

motaywo
motaywo
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4th Mar 2017
5th Mar 2017
A massive barred-spiral galaxy one billion parsecs from the Milky Way. It is atypical in that it originally formed with four main arms. Extreme gravitational forces from a passing galactic core partially fractured two of the arms.
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Comments

  • zxaaw
    zxaaw     5th Mar 2017
    Like this: -
  • zxaaw
    zxaaw     5th Mar 2017
    A bar is so called because it is a BAR. Not a blob, a BAR.
  • zxaaw
    zxaaw     5th Mar 2017
    But it's not a bar!!! That's just the galaxy's core!!!
  • motaywo
    motaywo     5th Mar 2017
    For the person who added the 'iseenobar' tag, the bar is the dense hub of stars that is vertical at this angle. The two main arms go left and right, and the 6 lensed fragments are at varied angles.
  • MegaGengarRayquaza38
    MegaGengarRayquaza38     5th Mar 2017
    looks like my mum xD
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  • EmeraldBIRB
    EmeraldBIRB     4th Mar 2017
    its a thingy and when i unpause then rip
  • Coffee
    Coffee     4th Mar 2017
    noice :D
  • motaywo
    motaywo     4th Mar 2017
    The end result is several smaller, and seemingly colourful arms which led to the galaxy's name, pronounced 'spec-tro-um'.
  • motaywo
    motaywo     4th Mar 2017
    The gravity of the two intact arms distort the light produced in the fragments, stretching out the wavelengths to a visible degree in a manner similar to the doppler effect.