Exploded?!?

• by Ktdizzy

  What is happening with this??

  Posted November 21, 2015 3:00 PM

• by JeanTate

  Welcome to Galaxy Zoo, Ktdizzy!

  This is an elliptical galaxy, quite close to us (cosmologically speaking; its redshift is only 0.029). It has many names, perhaps the best-known is CGCG 380-023. If you look at it, zoomed out, in SDSS, you can see its nature quite clearly:

  

  Its nucleus does seem rather bright, and its spectrum tells us that that's likely due to it being an AGN; its super-massive black hole is (or was) likely feeding ...

  Hope this helps, and happy hunting! 😃

  Posted November 22, 2015 3:08 PM

• by brainybrianna in response to JeanTate's comment.

  cool 😃

  Posted November 25, 2015 5:01 AM