Interesting alignment of stars or galaxies

• by Whoandwhatitis

  It looks like there are a lot of stars or galaxies in this image which align in a suspicious way.

  I think we could be looking through a gravitational lens, but I don't see any obvious smearing or duplicates.

  Here is a snapshot of a larger field of view from SDSS:
  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/chart/chart.asp?ra=19.88679155&dec=14.87242956

  Posted February 5, 2017 6:49 AM

• by Budgieye moderator

  The blue in the center of the galaxy is a star forming area, you can tell by the light blue colour. Galaxies which are lensed are a dark blue with a hint of red. For more pictures, see

  3.9 Gravitational lenses https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=3

  There are often cases of alignments. Sometimes it is due to the filaments in the structure of the Universe.

  3.10 Dark Matter Galaxy clusters CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background) Big Bang, Cosmology https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=3

  Sometimes, it is just a coincidence.

  Posted February 5, 2017 7:15 AM

• by Budgieye moderator

  I suppose the green/red/blue blob is an asteroid, but it doesn't look typical of SDS asteroids. The edges look too sharp.

  

  http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu/DR9/ImgCutout/getjpeg.aspx?ra=19.88186368&dec=14.8843903&scale=0.2&width=200&height=200&opt=G

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237649954403647582

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  Here is an example of another nearby asteroid for comparison.

  

  http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu/DR9/ImgCutout/getjpeg.aspx?ra=19.85671274&dec=14.82568217&scale=0.2&width=200&height=200&opt=G

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237649954403648007

  Posted February 5, 2017 7:18 AM

• by c_cld

  #Asteroid Holeungholee (aka 1978 WU14, 1962 XO1, 1962 YC, 1972 RM1 or 1988 RM)
  Id on Reply #7963 on: October 16, 2008 http://www.galaxyzooforum.org/index.php?topic=3393.msg205270#msg205270 by @Fermats Brother

  http://cas.sdss.org/dr7/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?ra=19.88186368&dec=14.8843903 ObjId = 587724233178742817

  Posted February 5, 2017 8:55 AM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Thank you c_cld. I should have realized that the asteroid might be in the forum, since it had an SDSS ObjID number.

  Posted February 5, 2017 9:50 AM