Friday, July 12, 2019

Irregulars


Today's Astronomy Picture of the Day is an image of a class of galaxy known as "irregular", meaning it does not have the familiar spiral shape. What causes this shift in galaxies such as NGC 55 or our satellite galaxies of the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. Passages or collisions with other galaxies? Galaxy-wide singularities? The Great Old Ones?

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