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What about gravitational lensing? Wouldn't a spiral galaxy looks something like this after a lensing effect?
I am curious to find out.

All this theorizing about the composition of exoplanets is good. however, within our life time and many more life times, we will never know if this present theory is true or some future theory is true. Extrasolar theories about planets and other celestial bodies carries no weight, because the cannot...

Could this be an area of superheated mud in the past?
Superheated mud would spurt out periodically forming circular patterns overtime and building hills or mounds. The lower smooth areas could have been where water settled out after mud and steam gushed after an eruption...

Sirs/Madam, This is my first discusion on this forum and it has been prompted by the Hubble's Picture of the Hoags Object. Although it has been labeled a ring galaxy, it appears as if it is something else. The galaxy has a concentration of stars toward the observer, that appear to diffuse and spread...