Curious image

• by DennisH

  I'm curious about the star to the lower left. It's appears to have gases being drawn off it by a seemingly smaller object yet the other objects in the image seem unaffected. Could this be an illusory effect?

  Posted October 31, 2017 2:50 AM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Welcome DennisH.

  Difficult. . The amber streak? Possible gravitational lens arc, maybe balanced on the other side by amber spot. .Also present in SDSS, though not as clear and balancing spot is a different colour to the arcing spot. Almost always, each side of a gravitational lens must be the same colour. But GAMA/KiDS doesn't have much colour, so more difficult to decide.

  Put into

  Objects that need more research https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000004/discussions/DGZ0000ycq

  

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?ra=180.09392729&dec=1.43476396

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  DECaLS

  DECaLS

  http://legacysurvey.org/viewer?ra=180.0950&dec=1.4348&zoom=15&layer=decals-dr2

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  PanSTARRS

  
  http://ps1images.stsci.edu/cgi-bin/ps1cutouts?pos=180.09393102%2C1.4347&filter=color&filter=g&filter=r&filter=i&filter=z&filter=y&filetypes=stack&auxiliary=data&size=240&output_size=0&verbose=0&autoscale=99.500000&catlist=

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  not in Hubble footprint

  Posted October 31, 2017 9:12 AM