What appears to be a merger of two elliptical galaxies is in fact a result of projection. In reality, these galaxies are likely to be many millions of lightyears apart. This image highlights the difficulty of classifying some galaxies on Galaxy Zoo, especially when the image is even more fuzzy than this one.http://cas.sdss.org/astro/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=587733196769984638
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