Galaxy Zoo Talk

interacting galaxies

  • julianocaires by julianocaires

    by chance there is a galaxy next door who is interacting with the galaxy 's center of photo?

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  • Capella05 by Capella05 moderator in response to julianocaires's comment.

    Hi and welcome @julianocaires 😃

    I would say yes- here is the zoomed out image from SkyServer (mirrored and rotated):

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    Sadly no spectra (and therefore redshift), so we can only depend on what we see. Considering there appears to be clear interaction between the two galaxies, I would go for interacting / merging galaxies.

    Hope this helps 😃

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