https://www.legacysurvey.org//viewer/?ra=317.8328&dec=-64.0218&layer=ls-dr9&zoom=13&const
NGC 7020 is an interesting galaxy. Detached center is a hexagon. It reminds me of the bottom of Saturn. I had previously posted NGC 600 which I believe is taking the shape of a hexagon as well. Thoughts on hexagon galaxies and is there a thread for them?
This might be an example of a boxy/peanut-shaped galactic bulge? See the Boxy/peanut section here, doesn’t it look like the NGC 1175 image?
(and one of my old articles makes a cameo on that page!)
It does look like twin of ngc 1175 in its center. Hexagonal space objects are wild. I wonder if there formation is dependant on rotational speed.
Recently the discovery of BAOs or Baryonic Acoustic Oscillations and their relation to the early universe have had me thinking about cymatic frequencies and how they contribute to galactic formation. Sounds waves hitting bubbles create sonoluminescense ie light. Waves collapse etc. And if observing electrons changing how they behave, what can observing the universe do to its evolution? Who were the first beings to do so? And how did that change things?
Since I am an astrophysicist/astronomer who studies the morphology of galaxies, this galaxy called NGC 7020 is the equivalent of an X-shaped bulge when viewed edge-on.
NGC 7020
NGC 1175
This images from the WISE satellite reveal the X-shaped Bulge in the Milky Way. Image credit: Dustin Lang
Thank you for this! The WISE feature I had not seen yet. That really is incredible. The X shape of the bulge I will ponder for life! It reminds me of an hour glass. Space and Time! This thread about shape of galaxies had me revisit this galaxy in Phoenix ESO 242-17 the interior of the galaxy has a squared look to it, especially the right side. I would like to know your thoughts on it.
Supposedly, hexagonal shapes have been detected at the center of Earth based hurricanes. I cannot find any photographic evidence for this phenomenon.
Wiki on Saturn’s hexagonal polar atmosphere shape: “One hypothesis, developed at Oxford University, is that the hexagon forms where there is a steep latitudinal gradient in the speed of the atmospheric winds in Saturn’s atmosphere.[22] Similar regular shapes were created in the laboratory when a circular tank of liquid was rotated at different speeds at its centre and periphery. The most common shape was six sided, but shapes with three to eight sides were also produced. The shapes form in an area of turbulent flow between the two different rotating fluid bodies with dissimilar speeds”
It would be interesting to incorporate other factors into an experiment like adding cymatic frequencies to spinning fluid body. Doing it in a vaccum etc.
