Talk:Malin 1

Size
"650,000 light years across" is not "1,000 times the diameter of the Milky Way" - it is 6 1/2 times the diameter of the Milky Way — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.71.43.37 (talk) 16:40, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

What about the actual image?
There's a recent image of Malin 1 that's 2k in size. Why is there an artist rendering that clearly does not reflect the now visible rings around the core? And it has two huge galactic jets. This article could use a little work!

"Observations by Galaz, et al., in April 2014 revealed a detailed view of the spiral structure of Malin 1 in optical bands. The galaxy exhibits giant and very faint spiral arms, with a thickness of up to one-third the diameter of the Milky Way. Other details, such as possible stellar streams and formation regions, are revealed as well"

Pictures are worth a thousand words? Can we get rid of the outdated artist's rendering? 162.219.204.36 (talk) 07:20, 16 November 2016 (UTC)


 * Can you link the picture you are referring to? That would be a good start. To be able to use it in the article, however, it would need to be freely licensed (like a Hubble image or something else from NASA, one of the acceptable Creative Commons licenses, etc). Since we have a freely licensed representative image, we could not claim fair use even on a better quality or more desirable picture. — Huntster (t @ c) 07:42, 16 November 2016 (UTC)

Here a real image of Malin 1 LSB galaxy: https://www.flickr.com/photos/133259498@N05/28295856819/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 37.77.124.184 (talk) 18:57, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Clockwise rotation or Anticlockwise rotation?
On the processed Image I can see that it's rotation is clockwise but on the HST image, It seems to be Anticlockwise? What is correct? --THE COLOSSAL GALAXY NAMED IC1101 (talk) 08:58, 18 July 2020 (UTC)

750,000 Light Years in diameter?
This paper, https://arxiv.org/pdf/1512.01095.pdf, says not only that Malin 1 has wide arms, but also at 750,000 light years across. Any Thoughts?