The extended disk of ngc 4041 (Wim van Berlo)

Celestial hemisphere: Northern · Constellation: Ursa Major (UMa) · Contains: NGC 4036 · NGC 4041

The extended disk of ngc 4041, Wim van Berlo

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There aren't many images online of this small gem in Ursa Major, and even fewer show the extended disk of this spiral galaxy. What's more, the extended disk shows a claw like arm, so maybe this galaxy should be called the Crab galaxy.ngc 4041, the centrepiece of this image, is a spiral Seyfert type galaxy in the Big Dipper, about 70 Mly distant. It is a very active galaxy, with many HI regions where new star formation occurs. What is somewhat unusual is that these regions are scattered over the entire galaxy, including the nucleus. Hence the pink colour near the galactic centre.What is even more unusual is the very weak extended disk, which has an arm that appears to line up with one of the galaxy's arms. This faint structure is, as far as I could find, only described in one scientific article. In this article it is speculated that the "three pronged" extension could be due to a past interaction with another galaxy.Also in this image are several other galaxies, at approximately the same distance as ngc 4041. The larger of these, at the bottom of the image, is lenticular galaxy ngc 4036. This galaxy is in many ways the opposite of ngc 4041, in that it has no active star formation and is slowly losing its spiral structure. The remnants of a spiral are visible as weak disturbances in the disk.
Near the very left edge of the frame is the low surface brightness dwarf elliptical galaxy MATLAS-1177

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