The Halos and Environments of Nearby Galaxies (HERON) Survey IV: Complexity in the boxy galaxies NGC 720 and NGC 2768

The shapes of galaxies, in particular their outer regions, are important guideposts to their formation and evolution. Here we report on the discovery of strongly box-shaped morphologies of the, otherwise well-studied, elliptical and lenticular galaxies NGC 720 and NGC 2768 from deep imaging. The boxiness is strongly manifested in the... Show more