What am i looking at here?

• by kodemunkey

  The radio sources are much larger than the infra red source.

  Posted January 21, 2014 7:12 PM

• by JeanTate in response to kodemunkey's comment.

  Yes, and that's typical of radio lobes (in this case either #doublelobe or #hourglass) (there's a nice post/thread describing these somewhere; can't find it just now 😦).

  The source - core, or host, I haven't figured out which is the better term to use - is the elliptical galaxy that is the bright IR source in the middle; it's SDSS J084224.72+303555.9, and have a photometric redshift of ~0.182, so it's very close by GZR standards 😮. Here's the SDSS image:

  

  Posted January 21, 2014 8:27 PM