No interaction?

• by CeciliaB

  Two galaxies very close to each other with similar redshifts. But it´s difficult to see any interaction. Perhaps it will happen in the distant future?

  Posted January 11, 2016 2:05 PM

• by Rick_Nowell

  There might be some gravitational lensing here. Anyone spot any?

  Posted January 11, 2016 8:52 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator in response to Rick_Nowell's comment.

  There probably is, but the resolution in these images is not sharp enough. So (very sorry) but no lensing in this image ! 😉

  Posted January 11, 2016 9:44 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Hi Rick, I pressed Ctrl + to enlarge the image but I can't see what you mean, There is a green smile making up a happy face, but the green arc looks like a cosmic ray hit, it is too sharp to be a gravitational lens.

  Posted January 12, 2016 7:12 AM

• by Budgieye moderator

  This galaxy pair has a radio-loud AGN, but I can't find a picture!. It may be a dumbell shape, but the 1994 article I looked up didn't have an image. Maybe our Radio Galaxy Zoo friends have an image. So many astronomy articles don't have pictures!

  http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1991AJ....102.1960P&data_type=PDF_HIGH&whole_paper=YES&type=PRINTER&filetype=.pdf

  Posted January 12, 2016 7:17 AM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Boring spectra, if something exciting is happening, it is hidden by old red stars and dust clouds.

  

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237651752923365570 z 0.095 0.00002

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  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237651752923365570

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/get/specById.asp?id=562990119049521152 z 0.099 0.00002

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  The "nose" of the face is likely a star in our galaxy.

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  Galaxy down to right is not part of the group, it has a firm z 0.204 0.00003

  Posted January 12, 2016 7:38 AM

• by Rick_Nowell

  My main point of focus was beneath the galaxy pair (about 6pm as if a clock face), half way down, below the orange object. There are two smaller objects (dwarfs?) that are seemingly mirrored by two galaxies next to it. At '7pm' the same effect with two more dwarfs.

  To my amateur eye, the space just looks warped!

  Posted January 12, 2016 8:21 AM

• by Budgieye moderator

  I see the area. a distant orange-red galaxy, surrounded by a circle of galaxies

  ![enter image description here(http://www.galaxyzoo.org.s3.amazonaws.com/subjects/decals/standard/J095921.03+011751.8_standard.jpeg)

  

  DECaLS and SDSS

  Posted January 12, 2016 4:15 PM

• by Rick_Nowell in response to Budgieye's comment.

  Thanks Budgieye for the pictures. SDSS doesn't show much on my screen. Hard to say!

  Posted January 12, 2016 6:25 PM

• by Ghost_Sheep_SWR

  Seems too pixelated to me

  

  Original straight from DECaLS, seems a bit brighter than GalaxyZoo image

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  Highlighted a bit, no arcs?

  Posted January 12, 2016 9:28 PM

• by Rick_Nowell in response to Ghost_Sheep_SWR's comment.

  Excellent! On the highlighted picture on my laptop screen at roughly 7.30pm, the inner two objects are similar to the two objects at 7.30pm further away from the central orange galaxy. Hmm, maybe...

  Posted January 12, 2016 10:35 PM

• by Dolorous_Edd

  Seems to be the host of the nice Narrow-angle tail radio galaxy

  contours from FIRST on SDSS

  

  Also was imaged by CFHT telescope, only U-band image available

  

  Posted January 13, 2016 9:44 AM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Thank you for the radio image, Dolorous Edd. So it is a radio galaxy. You really can't tell from the spectral charts. No activity in the porported lens zone below the galaxies, either.

  2dFGRS N420Z160

  Posted January 17, 2016 6:04 PM

• by c_cld in response to Ghost_Sheep_SWR's comment.

  No arcs in Decals browser DR2:

  

  http://legacysurvey.org/viewer/?layer=decals-dr2&ra=149.83765&dec=1.29773&zoom=16

  Posted January 23, 2016 11:04 AM