Dustin perhaps you could take a sneak peek at the FITS files from this galaxy to see if the ‘rays’ up and down are real or extremely unlucky artefact (removal) lines
I’ve found these optical lines are aligned with the VLASS radio lobes, and Martin Hardcastle thinks they could be optical synchrotron features worthy of a write-up as there are no references for those in this galaxy yet.
I’ve tried checking tge Legacy Survey FITS files myself but Aladin Desktop then crashed on them. I’ve also checked the available HST images but either I don’t see them in there or maybe the upper one very faintly…
I kind of see a bottom ray. I maybe see one on the top, but it doesn’t look aligned with the center – so that might just be a failure of squinting as a method of data analysis!
(not so much a comment on this galaxy) but the ‘area’ of space this galaxy is in, has a crazy amount of absurdly bright galaxies, no matter what direction you go in
Checked all CCD images for artefacts, nothing in there
Available in HSC images g & r band, best visible in g band so definitely real. But linked to the radio lobes or coincidentally aligned? Can’t say for sure, there seem to be two more of these somewhat equal features in the HSC images (2 o’clock & 10 o’clock, plus horizontal artefact below core):
