Is there a galaxy?
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by xanthi373
I´d like to ask if there´s a galaxy here. What´s this red point?
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by Capella05 moderator in response to xanthi373's comment.
Hello and welcome Xanthi373 😄
To answer your first question - Yes, there is a galaxy at the center!
The reason for the weird red colour is that this galaxy harbours a QSO (or quasar) 😃 These objects tend to look quite red in the UKIDSS infrared images. Here is the optical image (slightly rotated / flipped) of the same galaxy:
Even in the optical image you can see the core of the galaxy is intensely bright.
Hope this helps and happy hunting!
Capella.
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by xanthi373
Thank you very much. As I´m new here every comment is very helpful for me.
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by Capella05 moderator in response to xanthi373's comment.
No worries 😃 That is what we are here for!
If you have any other questions, just post it and one of us will get back to you 😄
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