Oddball Spiral Galaxy Is Flat as a Pancake

Wednesday, February 2, 2011 - 13:33 in Astronomy & Space

A bright galaxy, called NGC 3621, appears to be a good example of a classical spiral galaxy, but astronomers have found that it is actually rather unusual: it does not have a central bulge, and is therefore described as a pure-disk galaxy.

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