Galaxy Zoo Talk

A pretty pseudo-lens

  • planetaryscience by planetaryscience

    This is clearly not a gravitational lens, but sure caught my attention!

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    14 58 28.94 +07 54 43.5, SDSS J145828.84+075445.7

    Probably a weirdly interacting disturbed galaxy. The photoZ for the various regions is 0.119 +/- 0.0508 and 0.283 +/- 0.0749, translating to an error-weighted average of z=~0.17.

    The elliptical below it has a photoZ of 0.276 +/- 0.1296, which agrees fairly well. Assuming they are at the same redshift, the error-weighted average is z=~0.18.

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