The galaxy presents as a highly elongated, cigar-shaped structure. There is a color gradient that appears to shift from bluish-white at one extreme, to a yellowish-red through the center. This may indicate a concentration of older stellar populations toward the galactic core, and the presence of younger, hotter stars in the bluish-white region. There is also a strong suggestion of disk morphology, although it is inclined nearly edge-on. The overall smoothness of the light distribution hints at a relatively evolved system with minimal ongoing major mergers. This suggests it has a stellar mass around 10^9.7 solar masses. The lack of obvious strong star-forming regions suggests a relatively low star formation rate, in the range of 10^-1 solar masses per year, giving it a very low specific star formation rate, on the order of 10^-10.6.
