UMD student publishes paper about out-of-this-world discovery
Looking at a galaxy about 359 million light years away, Burcin Mutlu-Pakdil was unsure that what she saw was real. She was researching a rare kind of galaxy called a Hoag-type galaxy. Their round cores surrounded by a circular ring differentiate ...
Written By: Lisa L. Kaczke
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The left panel shows a false-color image of PGC 1000714. The right panel shows a B-I color index map that reveals both the outer ring (blue) and diffuse inner ring (light green). (Photo courtesy Ryan Beauchemin)
