Galaxy Zoo Talk

What is this?

by suelaine

The centred object is an ellipse, but what is the object below and to the left? There seems to be little information in Sktserver. Is it disturbed galaxy?

Posted May 26, 2014 8:14 PM
by JeanTate in response to suelaine's comment.

#disturbed for me, possibly a #merger, maybe a disk galaxy ('spiral') whose bulge is relatively undisturbed, but whose disk is quite messed up. And where is the perturber? From our perspective, hard to say ...

Posted May 26, 2014 8:23 PM

Subject: AGZ0004up9

by skyeconnery

There appears to be a nebula in the upper RH corner about 0100

Posted May 24, 2014 7:48 AM
by suelaine

#disturbed #ellipse but what is the galaxy to the bottom on the left? On sky server, I cannot find that it is a galaxy

Posted May 26, 2014 8:04 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

Could be another galaxy, but more likely it is part of the central, very disturbed galaxy

Posted May 26, 2014 8:33 PM
by suelaine

#ElizabethB, moderator .... Do you know of an explanation for how to read Spectrographs. I would like be able to understand readings

Posted May 26, 2014 8:43 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

Here's a link to : http://tinyurl.com/Zooite-Guide-to-SDSS-Spectra by our very own Budgieye 😄

Posted May 26, 2014 9:00 PM
by suelaine

ElizabethB- thank you, thank you. This is great!! Should have asked sooner!

Posted May 26, 2014 9:15 PM