Edge view or no?
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by shawnkm
Need someone with more experience on this one. At first blush it looks like and edge on shot with a pinkish disk extending from both sides. On the other hand there are pinkish bands above and below the central object. Can anyone help with interpreting this image?
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by Capella05 moderator
Hi @shawnkm and welcome to Galaxy Zoo!
The pinkish bands are in fact optical artifacts most likely diffraction arcs caused by a bright object off screen.
Here is the same image from SDSS (a different survey from DeCaLS) without the artifacts, as you can see the galaxy at the center is a fairly non-de-script fuzzy galaxy.
Hope this helps, let us know if you have any other questions 😃
~Capella05
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