NGC 2685 is a barred lenticular galaxy located in the constellation of the Great Bear at a distance of 40 million light years from the Milky Way and visible with amateur telescopes.
It is an example of rare galaxies with a polar ring, a type of galaxy characterized by being surrounded by several rings of young stars, gas, and dust perpendicular to its larger half-axis thought to have arisen after capture of a gas-rich minor galaxy, structures that explain by their appearance that NGC 2685 is also known as the Helix Galaxy or Tortita Galaxy.
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