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• by sonai2012

  Can anyone give me all the information about this Galaxy?

  Posted October 12, 2013 7:28 AM

• by JeanTate

  I'm not sure what information you're looking for, sonai2012, but lots of information is available by clicking on "View in Galaxy Zoo examine". If you do that, you get this link: http://www.galaxyzoo.org/#/examine/AGZ0003679, which tells you the SDSS ID, the location (on the sky) of the galaxy (in RA and Dec, which are like longitude and latitude coordinates), two links that give much, much more information about the galaxy ("View on SkyServer" and "Search NED"), and a tool that allows you to see the raw SDSS data, in the form of pixels in each of the five bands.

  Perhaps you're looking for things like, "well, it's a late-type galaxy, very likely an elliptical, whose stars are all quite old; there's probably very little dust and not much gas in it either. It may be a giant elliptical, at the center of a cluster of galaxies; if so, the fuzzy blobs around it may be smaller galaxies in the cluster, In any case, several of the points are stars in our own galaxy"?

  Posted October 12, 2013 7:38 AM