Straight debris trail on Galaxy Zoo Talk

• by Budgieye

  Is there anything in the radio data which might explain this straight line?

  

  https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/subjects/AGZ000e6sa

  Remnant of a galaxy https://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000004/discussions/DGZ0002t0m?page=1&comment_id=5a22b6e7b9419025f500191f

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr9/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?ra=214.85953195&dec=1.65828718

  SDSS J141926.27+013929.9

  214.85948686,1.65831975

  Posted December 3, 2017 9:08 AM

• by ivywong scientist, admin

  a strong fast tidal interaction can create a very straight tail of stars. Have you seen or heard of the Umbrella Galaxy in the Virgo cluster? The Umbrella galaxy (NGC4651) also has a very straight tail or plume of stars extending away from the galaxy.

  Posted December 5, 2017 4:18 AM