Possible triple core giant elliptical

https://www.legacysurvey.org//viewer/?ra=10.1356&dec=-0.2316&layer=ls-dr9&zoom=16&const

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Looks very lens-y to me. Really nice grouping.
Screen Shot 2023-02-02 at 12.41.04 PM

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cheers…because of the low image resolution, it’s quite dlifficult to know for sure, though lots of these cD ellipticals do display multiple nuclei aquired through the cannibalism of smaller galaxies, NGC 6166 (Hercules) in Abell 2199 being a classic example of this…

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