Smiling galaxies!
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by DZM admin
This popped up as trending on my Facebook, so it must be getting quite a bit of attention!!
SDSS J1038+4849, for those interested!
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by Budgieye moderator
Not a hidden treasure, but is published in 2008 and also seen by reddevil013 in Galaxy Zoo forum in Sept 2007. Also known as the Cheshire Cat (from Alice in Wonderland)
Cheshire Cat in SDSS
http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr8/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237657628448325814 z=0.97
The two massive lensing galaxies at z=0.43
There are two lensed galaxies which form 2 white arcs with a radius of 11" and have a redshift of z=0.97 and 0.14
"The Cheshire Cat" "Two New Large Separation Gravitational Lenses from SDSS" 2008
http://arxiv.org/abs/0806.4188 Cassowary catalog CSWA 2.1 and 2.2
"lensing two background sources, the first a star-forming galaxy at z = 0.97 and the second a high redshift
galaxy (z > 1.4)
"The Sloan Bright Arcs Survey : Six Strongly Lensed Galaxies at z=0.4-1.4"http://arxiv.org/abs/0812.3934
588013382200131773 and
588013382200131774
SDSS J103843.59+484917.7 and SDSS J103842.69+484920.2
posted by reddevil013 as Galactic Smiley Facetaken from: Zooite Guide to Strong Gravitational Lenses http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=275811.0
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by DZM admin
I wonder why it's just now getting mainstream press attention, then.
Does it really take 7 years to translate from publication to anyone noticing? 😄
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by Budgieye moderator
It is not in the Hubble gallery. Maybe nobody dug it out and made an image? until now? Then good for Judy Schmidt,
"who submitted a version of the image to the Hubble's Hidden Treasures image processing competition, where anyone can sift through the Hubble's massive data pools to highlight hitherto ignored sights from the stars."
As they say, these images don't just appear, someone has to do the work of making a pretty picture from the raw image data.
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/exotic/gravitational_lens/
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