
doi: 10.1038/279140a0
IN the course of scanning the Palomar Sky Survey, I noticed what appeared to be a large and a small eliptical galaxy interconnected by a long straight bridge which could have been a radial jet from the larger galaxy. Furthermore a comparison between red and blue prints showed the smaller galaxy to be extremely blue, and thus highly unusual. Detailed enlargement of the images suggest that the larger galaxy may possess chaotic filaments akin to those in M82 or NGC1275. The spectroscopic observations described here show that, as expected, the two galaxies have strong narrow emission lines, but also that a third neighbouring galaxy is involved.
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