Odd twin rings around galaxy
The statement is partially accurate, but with key details missing and some conflation of discoveries. NGC 4725 is a well-known barred spiral galaxy that is notable for having a prominent single spiral arm and a ring structure, features that make it peculiar and of interest to both amateur and professional astronomers. This ring structure is widely documented and observed by amateur astrophotographers, but was not a new discovery made by the Galaxy Zoo project itself.
- The Galaxy Zoo project, which involves citizen scientists classifying galaxies, has led to numerous scientific discoveries and has compiled extensive data on galaxy features, including the properties of bars and rings in thousands of galaxies.
- A separate, very recent discovery involving amateur astronomers (citizen scientists in the "RAD@home" program, not specifically the Galaxy Zoo project) did identify a rare "double ORC" (Odd Radio Circle), which is a pair of faint, circular radio structures, around a distant radio galaxy, not NGC 4725. These two discoveries are distinct:
- NGC 4725: A known single-armed, ringed barred spiral galaxy observed in optical light, among others.
- "Twin-ring" or "Double ORC": A recent discovery of two large, mysterious, faint radio-only circles around a distant galaxy, a different phenomenon discovered by a different citizen science project.
Therefore, while amateur astronomers contributed to the study of galaxy structures, the specific discovery of a "twin-ring" or "double ORC" structure around NGC 4725 is not accurate based on the search results.
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