Galaxy Car Crash ?
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What's going on here ? Collision or merger ? or both ?
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by Capella05 moderator in response to HighlandCooBrian's comment.
Hi and welcome to the Zoo 😃
I would go with merger, but the orange object on the left is unconnected to the galaxies on the right.
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Ok - but how do you tell that the orange object is unconnected ? Is it a nearer galaxy ? It looks a bit too diffuse to be a nearby star ?
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by Capella05 moderator
It is not interacting with the galaxies :- ) Also look at the colour, shape and density of the object - I would tag it as a foreground star.
Just going to have a look on NED to see if I can get more info for you - but when it comes to classifying an image, all we have is our eyes!
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