Subject: AGZ0003pqi

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• by Jacemg

  Is this a dust lane or a very cool merger??

  Posted September 11, 2012 8:54 PM

• by vrooje admin, scientist

  Interesting object!

  I suspect merger because each half appears to have a separate bulge.

  Posted September 11, 2012 8:58 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  cosmic yin and yang

  Posted September 11, 2012 8:59 PM

• by devlkiller0

  This could make a good 'O' or a 'p' for the galaxy alphabet.

  Posted September 12, 2012 12:55 AM

• by klmasters scientist, admin

  An equals sign, for a cosmic #maths #alphabet

  Posted September 12, 2012 10:36 AM

• by klmasters scientist, admin

  Or seriously, two disc galaxies approaching each other face on (and we see edge on). Neat orientation to simulate....

  Posted September 12, 2012 10:37 AM

• by zookeeper admin, scientist

  Tagging this with #merger

  Posted September 12, 2012 11:17 AM

• by SputnikIII

  Could this be some sort of gravity lens effect?

  Posted September 12, 2012 5:48 PM

• by Terrance_L._Johnson

  like a pair of manta rays swimming together.

  Posted November 6, 2012 4:45 AM

• by bretarn

  sideral beauties!

  Posted November 9, 2012 7:16 PM

• by Urvelniel

  Amazing twin merging

  Posted November 11, 2012 7:19 AM

• by BetelgeuSeginus

  #merger

  Posted November 12, 2012 2:19 PM

• by kristinaklug

  nice Christmas present.

  Posted December 24, 2012 9:33 AM

• by Nakedeye2

  I'm for the gravity lens, just at quick glance. Beautiful image, anyway.

  Posted December 25, 2012 9:31 PM

• by Taras.maxymgmail.com

  can it have a dust lane ?

  Posted December 31, 2012 3:41 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Two disturbed galaxies. Definitely not a lens

  Posted December 31, 2012 4:17 PM

• by jamesmcdougz

  black hole?

  Posted January 2, 2013 9:22 PM

• by Mansdahl

  Looks like a giant coffee bean in space 😃 They look so identical, just mirrored. Interesting!

  Posted January 9, 2013 5:46 AM

• by lewdwig

  #lens ? Dust lane? Strange symmetry.

  Posted February 2, 2013 3:58 AM

• by koedooder

  The Coffee Bean Galaxy!

  Posted September 22, 2013 11:22 AM

• by Xuraku

  I think we're watching a collision. It would be more stretched if it were a gravitational-lens-effect.

  Posted May 6, 2014 12:27 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Definitely some interaction going on. Nice #merger. No gravitatonal lens in this image.

  Posted May 6, 2014 12:37 PM

• by lostlens

  #Sc cw NVSS J172400+095729 ambiguous RadioS neither redshift nor kinetics & Sc ccw #redanddead

  Posted May 6, 2014 12:38 PM

• by Capella05 moderator

  #no_lens early stage merger 😃

  Posted September 30, 2014 6:15 PM

• by DrRichard

  Looks like a merger. Spectacular.

  Posted February 6, 2015 4:07 AM