double coloured

• by ritacecilia translator

  This very fuzzy galaxy image consists of two distinct colours - as if a white lens around an orange elliptical. Any opinions?

  Posted January 23, 2017 9:42 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  It's an artificially redshifted galaxy.
  
  Here's the original one in Skyserver
  
  And here is the blog post with more info : https://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2016/12/12/ferengi-2-images-launched/

  Hope this helps !

  Posted January 24, 2017 10:20 AM

• by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

  Spiral galaxy #NGC 2856, the blue arc is thought of as accretion material 'overshooting' the galaxy from a flyby with a nearby other spiral galaxy NGC 2854. So sort of a polar ring feature.

  

  

  http://ned.ipac.caltech.edu/cgi-bin/ex_refcode?refcode=2008AJ....135.2406S

  Posted January 24, 2017 11:09 AM