Strange?
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Space1000
What is going on in this elliptical galaxy? there are gas jets that come out each side of it and a weird blue dot in it
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Budgieye
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It if probably not an elliptical. The sticking out bits may be trails of stars, but are not gas jets, we can't see them in distant galaxies. Weird blue dot is probably a transient, a cosmic ray hit
3.6 Relativistic jets https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=3
8.1 Artifacts, cosmic rays https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=8
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