Funny red colour in galaxy

• by Budgieye moderator

  posted on Galaxy zoo talk. Dr. Phil's thoughts "Agreed, red colour is funny, and it does look too thick to be a lensed galaxy. I wonder if its a pair of dust lanes, associated with a merger - see that tail of blue light in the bottom left of the image?"

  

  http://zooniverse-static.s3.amazonaws.com/www.galaxyzoo.org/subjects/standard/56f3e0845925d90043009c8d.jpeg

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?ra=326.5125856226289&dec=16.63275611213304

  

  EDIT: might be an artifact. This one looks slightly red, too.

  

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?ra=168.45161095034746&dec=-14.077813997428615

  https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/subjects/AGZ000czm3

  Posted September 21, 2017 9:02 AM