Galaxy Zoo Talk

Half and Half

  • KGanzert by KGanzert

    In my opinion, this photograph can be perceived from multiple different perspectives. From a glance, it appears that the blue ovular shaped galaxy on the left is approaching toward the red galaxy on the right resulting into what seems to be a collision as the yellowish shade in between the two colors depicts. From a different point of view, this photograph could also be a disturbed aftermath of a galaxy from a previous confrontation with another galaxy. The blue shade could be debris moving away, as for the red shade on the right, it could be debris from the distorted galaxy moving toward our direction. In other ways of thinking, this could just be a spiral galaxy moving clock-wise in our direction resulting once again with the red and blue. If you disagree or have an alternative explanation for the shown picture, please leave a comment.

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  • JeanTate by JeanTate in response to KGanzert's comment.

    Here is an object very close (on the sky) to this galaxy, a galaxy which goes by the names AGZ0003kbs and SDSS J012449.44+462511.9:

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    It's a star in our own galaxy, and its colors are similar to those of AGZ0003kbs (the above is an SDSS DR8 image; the Galaxy Zoo image of SDSS J012449.44+462511.9 was processed differently).

    Other objects nearby also have strange colors. As Els say, they are #artifacts.

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