Some very cool-looking galaxies in this cluster!

• by JeanTate

  Here's a cutout centered on zsp 0.099 SDSS J075917.10+270916.0, likely the BCG:

  

  Here are some galaxies which look like they're spirals on the way to becoming not-spirals:

  SDSS J075925.41+270845.0 - is the huge faint 'halo' a 'common envelope'? or the remnants of what was once a disk?

  

  SDSS J075918.71+270835.3, inner lens, outer twisted diffuse arms:

  

  SDSS J075916.02+270857.6 - merger? overlap? starforming!

  

  Posted July 14, 2017 3:39 PM