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Helical bar in NGC 4449? (APOD 03 May 2007)
Posted: Thu May 03, 2007 12:37 pm
by Axel
The bar in NGC4449 looks like a helix, or a helicoidal structure. Have any galaxy specialists suggested this?
Well?
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:35 pm
by Axel
So it's been a week. No astronomy question I have asked before has gone so long unanswered. If my question is stupid or formally unanswerable you can say so, my morale is high today.
Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 5:37 pm
by BMAONE23
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap070503.html
I see what you mean about the shape of the bar, It appears to me to be an elongated hexagon. I would like to see an even deeper image of this galaxy as there also appreas to be some cloudy structure (faint starlight) that is likely associated with this galaxy and could stand to tripple it's apparent size.