Space Warps Talk

Double something, with rings

  • Budgieye by Budgieye moderator

    Capella05 thinks merger.
    I think double quasar, with 2 arcs
    Might be a supernova?

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  • Tom_Collett by Tom_Collett scientist

    I vote merger. The arcs are too odd to be lensing (where is the lens?). Supernovae would just look like stars.

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  • Budgieye by Budgieye moderator

    I got this weird one again, a "floating ring"

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  • Capella05 by Capella05 moderator

    Even 2 years on it is very odd. Played around in Tools:

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    Do we think all the objects are connected? or perhaps foreground stars in the line of sight of a more distant collisional ring galaxy?

    Any other ideas?

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  • anupreeta by anupreeta scientist, admin

    This is most likely a merger.

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