Talk:Malin 1

Latest comment: 3 years ago by THE COLOSSAL GALAXY NAMED IC1101 in topic Clockwise rotation or Anticlockwise rotation?

Size edit

"650,000 light years across" is not "1,000 times the diameter of the Milky Way" - it is 6 1/2 times the diameter of the Milky Way — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.71.43.37 (talk) 16:40, 1 September 2011 (UTC)Reply

What about the actual image? edit

There's a recent image of Malin 1 that's 2k in size. Why is there an artist rendering that clearly does not reflect the now visible rings around the core? And it has two huge galactic jets. This article could use a little work!

"Observations by Galaz, et al., in April 2014 revealed a detailed view of the spiral structure of Malin 1 in optical bands. The galaxy exhibits giant and very faint spiral arms, with a thickness of up to one-third the diameter of the Milky Way. Other details, such as possible stellar streams and formation regions, are revealed as well"

Pictures are worth a thousand words? Can we get rid of the outdated artist's rendering? 162.219.204.36 (talk) 07:20, 16 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Can you link the picture you are referring to? That would be a good start. To be able to use it in the article, however, it would need to be freely licensed (like a Hubble image or something else from NASA, one of the acceptable Creative Commons licenses, etc). Since we have a freely licensed representative image, we could not claim fair use even on a better quality or more desirable picture. Huntster (t @ c) 07:42, 16 November 2016 (UTC)Reply

Here a real image of Malin 1 LSB galaxy: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/28295856819/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.77.124.184 (talk) 18:57, 28 April 2018 (UTC)Reply

Clockwise rotation or Anticlockwise rotation? edit

On the processed Image I can see that it's rotation is clockwise but on the HST image, It seems to be Anticlockwise? What is correct? --THE COLOSSAL GALAXY NAMED IC1101 (talk) 08:58, 18 July 2020 (UTC)Reply

750,000 Light Years in diameter? edit

This paper, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.01095.pdf, says not only that Malin 1 has wide arms, but also at 750,000 light years across. Any Thoughts?