(November 19, 2015 at 4:47 pm)Kaiser Wrote:(November 19, 2015 at 4:32 pm)pgrimes15 Wrote: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoag%27s_Object.
Check out the beautiful ring galaxy Hoag's object. One thing has always bothered me - the other presumed more distant ring galaxy seen through the "eye of the needle". What are the chances of that happening ?!! To me it looks more like something orbiting the central mass and gathering up the material between that and the outer ring.
On the other hand coincidences do happen.
Grimesy
Huh. Never seen that before. Thanks for the potential new avatar candidate
Though in regards to the galaxy viewed through through the gap...it's much redder in colour, which suggests to me that calculating its redshift played a part in identifying it as a more distant object.
Yes I noticed the redder colour and I think you're probably right, but every article about Hoag's object I have found concentrates on the galaxy itself and only mentions the other object in passing as a "presumed" more distant galaxy.
Grimesy
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