This image looks interesting!
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by mimtimms
Hello out there, I found this image really interesting. I'm keen to learn more about it. And what it might be.
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by JeanTate in response to mimtimms's comment.
Hi mimtimms, and welcome to RGZ! 😃
There is a bright radio source in this field, causing some #artifacts (the below-threshold rice-grain-like stuff everywhere). The radio source has a mainly #triple shape (morphology), with a couple of bulges, making it perhaps a nearly #x-shaped source?
The host - the galaxy with the super-massive black hole which produces the jets etc that we see as radio sources - is SDSS J110949.90+373829.4, and it has a redshift of 0.345:
It's almost certainly a giant elliptical galaxy, much bigger than our own Milky Way. However, unlike our galaxy, it has few if any new-born stars (that's why it's reddish-orange in color).
Hope this helps, and happy hunting! 😃
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by ivywong scientist, admin
Hi Mimtimms,
Perhaps this intro youtube video may provide more context as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCBBj7MaESQ
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