... 2007 February 16 . Polar Ring Galaxy NGC 2685 . ... Explanation: NGC 2685 is a confirmed polar ring galaxy - a rare type of galaxy with stars, gas and dust orbiting in rings perpendicular to the plane of a flat galactic disk. The bizarre configuration could be caused by the chance capture of material from another galaxy by a disk galaxy, with the captured debris strung out in a rotating ring. ... About APOD | ... NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply . ...

... 16.02.2007 . ... Credit: Ken Crawford ( Rancho Del Sol Observatory ) Explanation: NGC 2685 is a confirmed polar ring galaxy - a rare type of galaxy with stars, gas and dust orbiting in rings perpendicular to the plane of a flat galactic disk. ... Still, observed properties of NGC 2685 suggest that the rotating ring structure is remarkably old and stable. ... Publications with keywords: polar ring - galaxies . Publications with words: polar ring - galaxies . ... Galaxy NGC 474: Cosmic Blender . ...

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... Galaxies with polar rings (PRGs) are a unique class of extragalactic objects, consisting of a ring or disk of gas, stars and dust orbiting in a plane nearly perpendicular to the disk of a central galaxy. ... At present, there are only about two dozen kinematically confirmed galaxies in this PRG class, mostly from the Whitmore et al. (1990) catalogue, based on photographic images. ... Examples of object from our catalogue SPRC (=SDSS-based Polar Ring Catalogue). ...

... STScI-PRC99-16 RING AROUND A GALAXY Space Telescope Science Institute astronomers are giving the public chances to decide where to aim NASA's Hubble Space Telescope. Guided by 8,000 Internet voters, Hubble has already been used to take a close-up, multi-color picture of the most popular object from a list of candidates, the extraordinary "polar-ring" galaxy NGC 4650A. Located about 130 million light-years away, NGC 4650A is one of only 100 known polar-ring galaxies. ...

... Cross-shaped galaxy ZGC 2315+03 (Fig.1) has been described by Zwicky (1971) as ``post-eruptive or the result of the crossing of a compact galaxy through an edge-on spiral'' . This object was included in the Polar-Ring Catalog (C-71) by Whitmore et al. (1990) as a possible candidate for Polar-Ring Galaxies (PRG). ... One of them is galaxy 'disk' and the other is 'polar-ring'. ... The facts against the polar-ring nature of ZGC 2315+03 can be summarized as follows: . ...

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... HUBBLE UNCOVERS DUST DISK AROUND A MASSIVE BLACK HOLE . Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700 light-year-diameter dust disk encircles a 300 million solar-mass black hole in the center of the elliptical galaxy NGC 7052. ... Because the jets in NGC 7052 are not perpendicular to the disk, it may indicate that the black hole and the dust disk in NGC 7052 do not have a common origin. ... NGC 7052 is located in the constellation of Vulpecula, 191 million light-years from Earth. ...

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... Panoramic spectroscopy of galaxies with star-formation regions. a study of SBS 1202 + 583" . Hakopian, S. A.; Balayan, S. K.; Dodonov, S. N.; Moiseev, A. V.; Smirnova, A. A. 2012, Astrophysics, v.55, p.1 . The origin of gas in extended narrow-line regions of nearby Seyfert galaxies - I. NGC 7212" . ... Smirnova, A. A. ; Moiseev, A. V.; Afanasiev, V. L. 2010, MNRAS, v.408, p.400 (astro-ph/1006.5547) . ... Studying of some Seyfert galaxies by means of panoramic spectroscopy." ...

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... A.M.Mel'nik and P. Rautiainen / Straight segments in the galactic discs , MNRAS, 2013, Vol. 434, pp. 1362-1375, full text . ... 2010, Vol. 519, pp. 70-82, full text . A.M.Mel'nik and A.K.Dambis / Kinematics of OB-associations and the new reduction of the Hipparcos data , MNRAS, 2009, Vol. 400, pp. 518-523, full text . ... A.M.Mel'nik and P.Rautiainen / Kinematics of the Outer Pseudorings and the Spiral Structure of the Galaxy , Astronomy Letters, 2009, Vol. 35, pp. 609-624. full text . ...

... Astronomy news . ... NASA's Spitzer Images Out-of-This-World Galaxy . ... It is spiral-shaped like our Milky Way, with long, spindly arms of stars. The "eye" at the center of the galaxy is actually a monstrous black hole surrounded by a ring of stars. In this color-coded infrared view from Spitzer, the area around the invisible black hole is blue and the ring of stars, white. ... The ring around the black hole is bursting with new star formation. ...

... The circumnuclear GASEOUS disks are often decoupled from the circumnuclear stellar disks and are even stronger inclined to the outer disk planes; in fact, we have found a considerable `population' of inner polar rings. Inner gas polar rings are found as in spiral galaxies with the massive outer gas disks co-planar to the main symmetry planes (e.g. NGC 2841, Sil'chenko et al. 1997, and NGC 7217, Sil'chenko & Afanasiev 2000) as well in many lenticular galaxies (Fig. ...

... The formation of the disks of disk galaxies remains poorly understood. ... Many disk galaxies have only the thin disk component, with no bulge or significant thick disk. ... Almost all disk galaxies have an exponential radial surface brightness distribution. The reason for this exponential form is not known; nor is it known when the exponential form is established. ... We would compare low redshift galaxies observed in the I band with galaxies at z =0.5 in the J band and at z =1 in the H band. ...

The Andromeda Galaxy (M31) . Hot stars burn brightly in this image from NASA's Galaxy Evolution Explorer, showing the ultraviolet side of a familiar face. At approximately 2.5 million light-years away, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31) is our Milky Way's largest galactic neighbor. ... The bands of blue-white making up the galaxy's striking rings are neighborhoods that harbor hot, young, massive stars. ... When observed in visible light, Andromeda s rings look more like spiral arms. ...

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home publications > mercury . ... Rings of Creation . ... In 1755, Immanuel Kant had the remarkable insight that stars and planetary systems form by the gravitational collapse and rotational flattening of interstellar clouds. Later in the 18th century, Marquis Pierre Simon de Laplace refined Kant s idea by suggesting that planets condensed from rings produced at the edge of a contracting disk while the Sun formed at the center a picture thereafter known as the Nebular Hypothesis. ...

... Courtesy of NASA/ESA Observation data (J2000 epoch) Constellation Right ascension Declination Redshift Distance Type Serpens Caput 15h 17m 14.4s[] +21° 35 08[] 12,740±50 km/s[][1] 600±30 Mly (183±8 Mpc)[1] SA0(r) [citation needed ] [a] Apparent dimensions (V) 0.28 в 0.28[] Apparent magnitude (V) 16.0[] Notable features Ring galaxy Other designations PGC 54559,[] PRC D-51[] See also: Galaxy, List of galaxies Hoag's Object is a non-typical galaxy of the type known as a ring galaxy. ...