The galaxy presents as an elongated, cigar-shaped structure, with a smooth, featureless morphology. There is a concentrated central bulge of relatively high luminosity that appears yellowish in color. The overall color gradient suggests a higher concentration of older stellar populations in the core. The disk component appears to be viewed at an inclined angle, with less well-defined spiral arm structures, implying a later-type galaxy on the Hubble sequence. The surface brightness appears fairly uniform across the disk, showing little evidence of prominent dust lanes or bright star-forming regions. It is a fairly massive galaxy with ongoing star formation processes.
