Sawblade Galaxy

==Overview==
The Sawblade galaxy (originally called the Great Gyrate Galaxy and also designated as SCODSO 2) is a large SBb-type galaxy located in the northern constellation of Draco. It was originally thought to be a spiral nebulae in the Milky way galaxy in early observations but later on to be recognized as an independent spiral galaxy unrelated to the Milky way. Because of how the galaxy appears, early astronomers originally gave the galaxy the nickname "The Great Gyrate Galaxy," but modern astronomers soon coined the term "The Sawblade Galaxy" and made it official, even though it looks nothing like a real sawblade. It is 105.75 megalight years from Earth and has a great apparent size of around 0°10'36.14", making it a favorite galaxy for many amateur astronomers.
==Dwarf galaxy==
The Sawblade Galaxy has only one known dwarf galaxy, classified as SCODSO 2b. The dwarf galaxy was only recently discovered, only 2 years ago, but not much data can be acquired because it looks like a very faint dot even with a very powerful telescope made by modern astronomers and has only mistaken it as an empty space, a faint star, or a background galaxy, but more observation has concluded that it is, in fact, a dwarf galaxy. It was originally thought to be an elliptical galaxy at the time of its discovery, but more examination has revealed that it is likely an irregular galaxy due to the observations showing that the stars on SCODSO 2b are much younger than those in an average dwarf elliptical. ( You can visit this dwarf galaxy; the RG code is RG 0-9-74299097-2679. )
==Appearance==
The galaxy features a spiral structure with two well-defined major spiral arms and many moderately to loosely wound, patchy, and poorly defined minor spiral arms, i.e., the Sawblade Galaxy is both a grand design spiral galaxy and a flocculent spiral galaxy. The galaxy has a thick, conspicuous dust lane in the galactic disk, obscuring clouds of interstellar dust. Because of the dense and relatively thick dust, light from the galaxy is increased by several orders of magnitude, yet the dark dust lanes, like diffuse nebulae situated inside the galactic disk, can operate as a star factory, forming new young, hot stars and planets in the protoplanetary disk of that newborn star. The galaxy features a smaller than average galactic bulge in the central region, which features a notable galactic bar structure. The galactic bugle has a yellow-white tint because of its abundance of old stars.
==Supernovae==
There has been only one observed supernova in the Sawblade Galaxy, and it is GSN-SCODSO 2a. The supernova peaked at an apparent magnitude of about 9.84, and it was classified as a Type Ia supernova.
File:Sawblade Galaxy-001.jpg|GSN-SCODSO 2a
== Gallery ==
File:Sawblade Galaxy-002.jpg|The Sawblade Galaxy as seen from a telescope
File:Sawblade Galaxy-003.jpg|Sawblade's nucleus
File:Sawblade Galaxy-004.jpg|Sawblade imaged in a different way
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