Long galaxy

• by joseph2237

  This is either a merging pair or this guy is very long

  Posted October 16, 2013 1:46 AM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Merger for me too !

  Posted October 16, 2013 6:54 AM

• by tennisjazz

  yes, looks like two-armed spiral with lower/right arm distorted by object below which conceivably is another spiral, or highly elliptical galaxy. some other oddities as well. #merger #distortion

  Posted October 19, 2013 11:36 PM

• by KWillett scientist, admin, translator

  Actually, I think this is an #overlap pair; if you look at the zoomed-out SDSS image, you can see that the long arm is actually an edge-on spiral that just overlaps the face-on galaxy at the center. Beautiful!

  http://skyserver.sdss3.org/public/en/tools/chart/navi.aspx?ra=209.929770820105&dec=40.3866774615686&scale=0.2

  Posted October 19, 2013 11:49 PM

• by zutopian

  It isn't an overlap, but a merger, because both galaxies have close redshifts according to NED.

  Posted October 20, 2013 1:04 AM