Interesting object

https://www.legacysurvey.org//viewer/?ra=174.6823&dec=12.1326&layer=ls-dr9&zoom=15

What is happening here!!!

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Collisional ring :slight_smile:

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I’ve posted a thread of collisional rings, if you want to post yours there, then you can. I remember finding this object over the summer.

I do believe these objects are going to the literature in the future, mainly finds from various sources

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I also see that this object seems to be refereed from various sources on Galaxy Zoo project, but me looking in SIMBAD finds me 2 references to this object, so it might not have been placed in the literature

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Yes! Zoolites from the Galaxy Zoo project dubbed this “The Scream” as it represents the film franchise Scream.

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Its because it looks like the face in The Scream, a painting by Edvard Munch

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I recently learnt that the screaming face emoji :scream: is purposefully rendered by most systems to look like that of the painting. As a Norwegian, we don’t have huge numbers of famous artists in any discipline and so I am (constitutionally) obliged to remind everyone of useless facts like this.

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Scream is many disambiguations similar to the galaxies.