Keyword: edge-on spiral
The Tail of the Hamburger Galaxy
8.05.2014
NGC 2683: Spiral Edge On
11.10.2010
8.05.2014
Sharp telescopic views of NGC 3628 show a puffy galactic disk divided by dark dust lanes. Of course, this deep portrait of the magnificent, edge-on spiral galaxy puts some astronomers in mind of its popular moniker, the Hamburger Galaxy.
NGC 2683: Spiral Edge On
11.10.2010
Does spiral galaxy NGC 2683 have a bar across its center? Being so nearly like our own barred Milky Way Galaxy, one might guess it has. Being so nearly edge-on, however, it is hard to tell.
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