shape

• by vitodidi

  what is this?

  Posted December 4, 2016 12:18 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Good question. Well, it is a galaxy, for a start. Dense center is almost a bar, but not quite. But there is a long swirl of stars circling around it. the bright blue round thing looks like an area of exploding stars, called an OIII area or pea. Also, there is hot hydrogen, so it has an AGN, an active black hole that is eating stars. Interesting.

  

  http://legacysurvey.org/viewer/jpeg-cutout/?ra=185.3654&dec=18.1069&zoom=16&layer=decals-dr2

  

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/get/specById.asp?id=2924109738490750976

  

  http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu/DR9/ImgCutout/getjpeg.aspx?ra=185.36497503&dec=18.10665591&scale=0.09903175&width=800&height=800&opt=&query=

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?ra=185.3650527780368&dec=18.10681702556918

  Posted December 4, 2016 2:29 PM