Galaxy Zoo Talk

Red Artifact

  • tdery by tdery

    This was an interesting one. I zoomed out and the rest of the stars in the field are red so the Red lens color is probably an artifact. I had to send this in to be viewed because its very different. Would be awesome if this was a lensed galaxy from the background. Doubt it tho.

    Your thoughts?

    Todd

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  • Budgieye by Budgieye moderator

    As you say, many objects are red in that field. Lensed galaxies have an arc shape, and are usually blue in SDSS.

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    http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237678807460085986

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