Extremely red merger?

• by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

  Is this galaxy merging with an extremely red object (or overlap)? Looks disturbed anyway.

  

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr13/en/tools/explore/Summary.aspx?id=1237667725902479380

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr13/en/tools/explore/Summary.aspx?id=1237667725902414191

  Posted July 27, 2017 10:19 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  GZ image is upside down, which confused me. Aside from that, I'm not sure if it is a red star or distant galaxy.

  Posted July 29, 2017 1:47 PM

• by Ghost_Sheep_SWR in response to Budgieye's comment.

  Hmm yeah looks to me if target galaxy is disturbed so thought the red object might be involved.

  Will check later if I can get better images / info. Still even for a foreground star or background galaxy looks incredibly red.

  Thanks!

  Posted July 29, 2017 3:44 PM

• by c_cld

  1237667725902414191

  

  in PanSTARRS-1 looks like a star

  r/i/z cutout 60px (15.00 arcsec)

  Posted July 30, 2017 9:30 AM