Possible lensing effect
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CyberPaddy66
This is the first time that I have seen anything like this, it took me a while to work out which galaxy was the target of focus and while trying to see the shape of the galaxy I noticed what looks to me to be interference rings which are distorting the galaxy just above the target one. Is this really a lensing effect or am I just imagining that the galaxy near by is distorted and instead it is just a result of data anomalies from a pair of merci galaxies?
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CyberPaddy66
Someone sent me a pm explaining that it's just a data error, was the first time I saw any errors in these pictures so was a bit confused, now I know what to watch out for.
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Budgieye
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Gravitational lenses are usually bright and distinctive. Some images here.
3.9 Gravitational lenses https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=3
The may a galaxy merger, with two nuclei circling each other, throwing off round shells.
2.10 Double nuclei and shell galaxies created by two revolving nuclei https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=2
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CyberPaddy66
It is the symmetrical look of the data error's that initially confused me, the only other lens I had seen beforehand was the obvious one in the Hubble deep field image.
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