Galaxy Zoo Talk

galaxy or not?

  • space_girl_2002 by space_girl_2002

    I think this might not be a galaxy even. it could be a lot of galaxies merging or a bunch of very close stars that are very big.

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  • JeanTate by JeanTate in response to space_girl_2002's comment.

    Welcome to Galaxy Zoo, space_girl_2002!

    I'd say it's a #poorqualityimage, and that there are no galaxies in it at all (one possible exception - see below); they're all stars in our own galaxy. The object in the center is, to me, some stars which are close together, and the automatic software which 'worked out' that it is a galaxy is sorely mistaken (to get technical, it thinks it has a "Petrosian radius" of 10.32474, which is just plain silly).

    Happy hunting! 😃

    Here's what I think is a galaxy (the orientation is different from the AGZ0003w5c image):

    enter image description here

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