July 30, 2012
This spiral galaxy presents a sharp core instead of the usual bulge composed of old stars. The spiral arms being also fairly irregular, this could indicate that this galaxy went through some recent interaction with another galaxy that left it disturbed.
Topics:
Local Group, Spiral galaxies, Astronomy, Atlas of Peculiar Galaxies, Hubble sequence, Bulge, Milky Way, Galaxy, Messier objects, Barred spiral galaxies, Extragalactic astronomy
