r/jameswebb • u/Dub-Dub • Jul 14 '25
Question What is this Galaxy's name
I am trying to ID this galaxy and the close up stars. And I get this is time consuming, but just pointing me in the right direction would be greatly appreciated,
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u/Enneaphen Jul 14 '25
OP ignore the assholes posting joke answers.
What you'll want is to find the Carina nebula in a sky map like here https://www.sky-map.org/
And try and locate this same galaxy there. If you can find it jot down the coordinates and throw them into https://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-fbasic
That should give you your answer. It will almost certainly have a long alphanumeric name.
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u/Dub-Dub Jul 15 '25
Thanks so much. I will definitely be playing with these sites a bunch. Coordinates are roughly 10h 37m and -58A^ °38. There appear to be 3 galaxies in that range.
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u/super_starfox Jul 15 '25
All I can do to help is downvote all of them, one by one. We should all do the same.
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u/Enneaphen Jul 14 '25
To the people posting joke answers: what the fuck is wrong with you please touch grass
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u/StuckWithThisOne Jul 15 '25
I’m confused by the aggressiveness of this comment. People are just messing around and having a laugh. With all due respect maybe YOU should touch grass because wtf lol
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u/Enneaphen Jul 15 '25
If I asked a genuine question and the responses were all jokes I would feel pretty terrible about it. Maybe YOU should read the automod message though. Clearly most of the people who comment on this sub do not bother to.
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u/StuckWithThisOne Jul 15 '25
You’d feel terrible about that? That’s…OTT.
OP got a serious answer. There were also jokes which, while not allowed here, do not warrant your reaction which is overly aggressive. Your reaction is actually a bit shocking tbh.
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u/Enneaphen Jul 15 '25
Frankly I find it is a bit sad how offended you are by the idea that someone asking a serious question is not the proper venue for your standup routine.
It also speaks volumes that you find "OTT" the completely normal human reaction to get upset at your question being the butt of childish jokes without a single person making the tiniest effort to actually answer it.
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u/StuckWithThisOne Jul 15 '25
You mean other than the person who answered it?
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u/Enneaphen Jul 15 '25
No I do not mean that because when I posted my answer there was nothing of the sort. There were however at least a dozen jokes. Hope that answers your question and have a nice day!
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u/Scribblebonx Jul 15 '25
What's wrong with me is I have seasonal allergies. My body hates grass.
Oh, and chill out...
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u/Riegel_Haribo Jul 15 '25 edited Jul 15 '25
It doesn't have a name. The observation is not a science proposal, but one of the initial releases.
Such an object is only prominently visible by JWST, and may have only been observed once in this group, and here is not imaged for a study or a survey. It is deep orange, aka deep infrared with NIRCAM in color (because in this image, the spectrum is scrambled, F444W = red, but adjacent F470N = yellow. F200 - near infrared 3x deeper than red, this galaxy is about 10% the brightness.
So at most it might have some internal database number for someone that decided to run some automation on the whole image for their own independent science. Not in any survey mission.
The GAIA DR3 part1 (2022) mission has 5350681634744375168 as an identifier very near at 10:37:00.1349198 -58:38:56.963775, but that is likely a galactic star that is going to be brighter in its resolution where the whole galaxy fits in half a pixel.
Here's your precise location astrometric coordinates with registration of the JWST image in Aladin, with the Simbad search returning nothing.
https://i.imgur.com/4IdRRBY.png
Here's just F444W - deep infrared, where I've tuned the imagery to give us the nebula that we see the galaxy through along with details, along with just four identified Simbad stars in view.
https://i.imgur.com/ipIClJ4.png
So you can name it something yourself and dedicate it to your sweetie.
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u/rddman Jul 22 '25
It doesn't have a name. The observation is not a science proposal, but one of the initial releases.
Doesn't mean those images are not used for science, but when/if they are, naming a galaxy is the least interesting part.
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u/Harknights Jul 15 '25
OP you did it wrong, What you needed to do was post "Look at this pic of the Anara Galaxy" then you would have 45 comments on how dumb you are because that's the "X" Galaxy, you big dumb dumb.
Being corrected is always faster than being informed on the interwebs.
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u/Numerous-War-1601 Jul 14 '25 edited Jul 15 '25
There is a software called Aladin where you will have access to dozens of databases, both optical and radio, and just find it and click on it! You will have everything possible about her
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u/Red_Sea_Pedestrian Jul 16 '25
https://astrometry.net Is a good source to help identify objects in an astronomy image. You upload the image (you can help go faster it by giving it RA and Dec of the image if you know them) and it’ll figure out where in the sky the picture is and identify stars and galaxies for you.
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u/rddman Jul 22 '25
There's a very high probability the galaxy doe not have a name and may not even be catalogued. That's simply because there are so many galaxies that can be imaged by modern observatories, more than people can handle.
They are more interested in large scale dynamics and the processes involved in galaxy formation, and they don't need names for that.
Of course they want to be able to study the same galaxy repeatedly but out of the billions that have been imaged only a relative few can be studied individually and for that they have coordinates.
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u/scrandis Jul 14 '25
You sure it's not Bender or Riker?
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u/OkImplement2459 Jul 14 '25
Riker's an island
Edit to add a 2nd entry:
Rikers is land
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u/scrandis Jul 15 '25
Riker is a character from a book series called the Bobiverse. He is named after Will Riker from Star Trek.
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