Mysterious cosmic ribbons discovered by WA radio telescope could be rare polar ring galaxies

September 14th, 2023

ABC Online, Other, 13/09/2023, Jack Ryan
Searching through a catalogue of more than 600 galaxies, Nathan Deg stumbled upon two that seemed perfectly gift-wrapped. […] “Some spiral galaxies with large warped disks can look like polar rings,” said Brbel Koribalski, an astronomer at CSIRO and co-author on the new study.

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