CANOPIES             SMOOTHING

Where an arm or area of one galaxy trowels over another galaxy area, smoothing the area

CANOPIES

Canopies result when some part or most of a galaxy has been smoothed by collision. Sometimes a stump is associated.

How come galaxy portions smooth into an even surface is not immediately answered. Smooth amourphous less-luminant canopy-like surfaces are often found, for instance in colliders Ngc 3314 and Ngc 5128.

The above 'canopy' images are seen in context here. Ngc 3314 is in context in its own whole lengthy page, where evidence accumulates in compelling ways spelling only one telling, collision.

A closer look at Ngc 3314 smoothing.





Technical description of smoothing

Technical observation of smoothing in Centaurus A and officially terms 'bluearc', is here.

SMOOTHED CANOPY SHELF IN BODES GALAXY

A small
canopy is
seen in Bodes,
a sure telltale that
sometime past Bodes has wrangled.
Astronomers believe the tangle may have been
with nearby M83 which is certain a disturbed galaxy if
it ever was a spiral. The M82 encounter is featured
in its own page. The Bodes telltale is within
a long survey of Bodes effects here

Why
would a
galaxy of the
sophisticated elegance
of Bodes have a tong sticking
out on its own. Who knows. If
you know, tell everybody.





Meanwhile,
the importance
of the above two images
is in showing a small canopy
area along the length of the tong
arm, seen in an overhanging
diffuse shelf alongside
the right of the
core deck,
unmistakeably
where something from one
galaxy perhaps M82 has slicked over
this arm area amouphously smoothing it into a canopy

Smoothing
in mid lower
where two galaxies
called the 'fish' collide, a
short integral arm arcs out and
back in the midst of the
raucus hiss



Some
smoothing
in a collision
kinked arm of Ngc 2997,
in association with a large
collision caused 'snub'



Zoom
shows the
canopy clearer,
from an ESO image
associated with 'intruders'



Smoothed
right end of
Ngc 4414 adds to
the list of big clues
that Ngc 4414 is still
vibrating after or
even during a
collision
in this case
large areas are
smoothed, and no canopy
perhaps because the smoothing is
seen mostly to the rear and underneath



Trowelled by
a lazy contractor's
bent tool, smoothed areas
of Ngc 4414 stand out by
being so smoooothed
so different so
collision
caused

EYELIDS

A smoothed
galaxy such as M64
has less of a canopy, more of
eyelids slicking over a galaxy center, the
'eyelids' an illusion not really lids rather one
of the arms of such a galaxy is arcing over the center
area at such a sharp angle declented from the other
arm, that an eyelids appearance is created
when images of such galaxy are viewed
in overlay to study the
galaxy's 3D form

Next the
eyelids of Ngc 1512



A moi' speaks - I cannot resist the obvious stroke, that canopies are like eyebrows when overhanging a large smoothed area.

SMOOTHING

A long
discussion on
smoothing, as related
to smoothed galaxy Centaurus A,
and partically smoothed Ngc 3314,
is here.