Japanese scientists discover a rare polar galaxy

Follow up – Shadi Alloush
Media reports have reported that astronomers from Japan have discovered a new, rare, polar, ring galaxy.

With the Subaru telescope, scientists were able to spot the space object SDSS J095351.58+012036.1 within the framework of the Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam program.

The new galaxy is a system consisting of a lenticular galaxy and polar rings that have not coalesced for billions of years.

These rings are made of gas and stars, perpendicular to the direction of the main axis of the central galaxy.

The mass of the new galaxy is about 38.5 billion the mass of the Sun.

Its radius is 0.89 arcseconds, and the radius of the polar structure is 2.12 arcseconds.

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