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NGC 5866 (M102?) - The Spindle Galaxy - Constellation Draco
High-Contrast B/W inverted image of the LRGB image shown in this album.
In this inverted B/W image the contrast of the galaxy has been increased in order to show better the prominent spikes and giant wedge-shaped structure. As reported in the following articles:
http://iopscience.iop.org/1538-3881/140/4/962/article
http://arxiv.org/pdf/1003.4860.pdf
those peculiar structures have been generated probably by a recent merger event with another smaller galaxy.
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