ARG00002xy - something strange ...
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by JeanTate
The central radio source seems quite ordinary (slightly elongated core, perhaps a weak jet?), but the likely host does not (the other two radio sources are, most likely, unrelated).
Here it is in SDSS:
The white (yellowish) blob to the W (right) is not a separate photometric object in SDSS; it could be an overlapping (foreground) star, or galaxy; it could be ...
There is a spectrum, and it is about as 'dead and red' as you could imagine, with no trace of any line emission. So what's generating the radio signal?
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