Distant galaxy shining through edge-on?
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Budgieye
moderator
Good observation, ratprincess !
Skyserver has analyzed it as a galaxy. At photoz about 0.3, it will be far more distant than the edgeon galaxy at z= 0.062
We might be seeing a galaxy shining through the edge on.
http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237662237490676170
Photoz
objID 1237662237490676170
z 0.373346
zErr 0.086383
Galaxy Redshift Chart http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000ulp?page=2
typical galaxies at 0.3 nucleus are orange red, spiral arms are green.
But photoz can be wrong, so let us be careful
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