Talk:Barred spiral galaxy

question

How do you create external links on wiki? Do you just insert the "a href" html code you do for usual webpages?

• Like this: [http://www.webpage.com/ TitleofWebpage]. And by the way, the Milky Way has long been suspected to be barred. Spitzer is just the most recent confirmation. :) --Etacar11 00:26, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Thanks. Yeah, it has been suspected to be a barred spiral, but the Spitzer has pretty much just proved it. And the bar is alot longer than previously thought. :) OK, testing link here (it did ask for sources, after all)... Title.

• Your edit to the article makes it sound like yesterday astronomers thought it was a regular spiral and today they think its barred. That's all I meant. :) --Etacar11 03:10, 17 August 2005 (UTC)
• Just made a quick update, sounds a little more appropriate now.

Slashdot linkage

Heads up, there is a front page link to this article on slashdot right now, so expect edit traffic and vandalism to spike. - Chairboy 16:51, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

• Yikes, and it's such a tiny article in need of expansion! --Etacar11 16:54, 17 August 2005 (UTC)

Typos

Arn't Sm's spiral galaxies wit a bit of irregularities, not dwarfs. The classification for dwarf galaxies are with a "d" before it. So the LMC and SMC should be classified as dSBm. But isn't that funny, two barred galaxies orbiting a barred galaxy, LOL.
— Hurricane Devon ( Talk ) 22:16, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Generalization from a single example?

This sentence from the page: "Studying the core of the Milky Way, scientists found out that the Milky Way's bulge was peanut-shaped. This led to the conclusion that all barred spiral galaxies have a peanut shaped bulge." should be rewritten with more examples and a better explanation of the scientific process that was used. Otherwise, one might think that a generalization was made from ONE SINGLE EXAMPLE. Hugo Dufort 04:45, 28 September 2006 (UTC)

Bulge

I'm just curious but would a centralized black hole or object with a high mass account for the bulge, since it seems like stars around a central black hole orbit in that sort of fashion (varying directions) which would attribute to the "Bulge" Marx01 ^{Tell me about it} 00:26, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

half or two thirds?

The opening says approximately half of spirals are barred, whereas the first paragraph of the second section claims 2/3s. Those are significantly different values. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.170.62.95 (talk) 16:10, 8 October 2009 (UTC)

NGC 4565: barred or unbarred galaxy?

In this article written that NGC 4565 is a barred galaxy, but in article NGC 4565 - it is an unbarred galaxy. Where properly? Andrew M. Vachin (talk) 09:34, 19 July 2010 (UTC)