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Left: a disk galaxy that appears nearly edge-on to our line of sight with its long axis vertical and just left of image center. It has a bright core with a smooth ring of starlight surrounding it. Right: a ring galaxy. Its pancake-shaped disk of material appears is a clumpy blue ring of intense star formation. A dusty reddish blob at the bottom of the blue ring may be the galaxy’s original nucleus.

Hubble Image of Arp 147

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