{"id":171396,"date":"2023-09-06T02:29:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T07:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-ring-galaxy-discovered-by-indian-astronomers"},"modified":"2023-09-06T02:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T07:29:34","slug":"new-ring-galaxy-discovered-by-indian-astronomers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/new-ring-galaxy-discovered-by-indian-astronomers","title":{"rendered":"New ring galaxy discovered by Indian astronomers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-ring-galaxy-discovered-by-indian-astronomers3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>By analyzing the data from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS), astronomers from the Christ University in Bangalore, India, have serendipitously discovered a new ring galaxy, which received designation DES J024008.08\u2013551047.5 and may belong to the rare class of polar ring galaxies. The finding was reported in a paper published August 29 on the pre-print server <i>arXiv<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>The so-called polar ring galaxies (PRGs) are systems composed of an S0-like galaxy and a polar ring, which remain separate for billions of years. In general, these outer polar rings, composed of gas and stars, are aligned roughly in a perpendicular orientation with respect to the major axis of the central host galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>However, although more than 400 PRG candidates have been discovered to date, only dozens of them have been confirmed as real polar ring <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/galaxies\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">galaxies<\/a> by follow-up spectroscopic observations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By analyzing the data from the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey (DECaLS), astronomers from the Christ University in Bangalore, India, have serendipitously discovered a new ring galaxy, which received designation DES J024008.08\u2013551047.5 and may belong to the rare class of polar ring galaxies. The finding was reported in a paper published August 29 on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}