Galaxy Zoo Talk

Are these galaxies merging?

by mrfunston

I've been looking at speckly pictures for a while now and am still a newbie at this. To my eye, this looks like a spiral galaxy where the centre is moving off centre towards another galaxy?

Posted September 29, 2012 2:23 PM

Subject: AGZ0001h9v

by mrfunston

Am I right to think this looks like a spiral galaxy where the centre is being pulled off centre towards another galaxy?

Posted September 29, 2012 2:21 PM
by magslis

#overlap? elliptical over blue (starforming?) in background

Posted May 7, 2014 8:33 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

Especially the galaxy to the left looks seriously disturbed, so, there is definitely some interaction going on. #Merger ! 😄

Posted May 7, 2014 8:44 PM
by magslis

so the yellow and the blue are in fact one galaxy; was wondering about that:-)

Posted May 7, 2014 8:47 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

It could be a very disturbed spiral where the two spiral arms are flung to the left. Really nice #merger

Posted May 7, 2014 8:52 PM
by magslis

this is harder than I thought:-) but point taken:-)

Posted May 7, 2014 8:53 PM
by lostlens

compact #Sa Sb Sc ? ring-like neither redshift nor kinetics field GPair ? &
early compact SO z = 0.113 zphots = 0.064-0.076 & 0.107-0.120

Posted May 15, 2014 8:12 PM