What is this?

• by McLovin007

  Does anyone know what this is, especially the red "arm"?

  Posted May 13, 2013 5:25 PM

• by Dammie

  maybe a kind of explosion?

  Posted May 13, 2013 6:26 PM

• by vrooje admin, scientist

  Looks to me like more than one galaxy shown here -- what do people thing, merger or overlap? Or something else?

  Posted May 13, 2013 7:09 PM

• by Tonibee

  I'd have a guess that the central object is overlapping with two others - the side-on galaxy to the right and the blob to the left. I'd like to suggest that the central object is in the foreground, but that would make the side-on galaxy very large, unless they're really close or some of the central galaxy is less visible away from the core.

  Posted May 13, 2013 7:26 PM

• by Marty_wise

  Possibly an ultra close up of the roof of the Sistine chapel?

  Posted May 15, 2013 3:57 PM