Galaxy Zoo Talk

Possible Merger?

  • robzaballa by robzaballa

    The primary galaxy appears to be a spiral with obvious nucleus interacting with a smaller galaxy in a possible merger (as seen in the top portion of the primary). The lower portion of the primary galaxy also appears to be interacting or otherwise disturbed.

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  • Budgieye by Budgieye moderator

    It is hard to tell. It is fuzzy and far away. The PhotoZs have such large error bars that your guess is as good as their estimate.

    objID 1237672004238770732 top galaxy
    z 0.102533
    zErr 0.042341

    objID 1237672004238770731 target galaxy
    z 0.086249
    zErr 0.023488

    The slightly blue area may be an artifact, a star-forming region or a bit of distant blue galaxy, it is hard to decide.

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