What is the star shape on the right?

• by jonathanv

  What is the star shape on the right?

  Posted March 24, 2013 10:23 PM

• by Wrenchman

  Those are diffraction spikes from a star in our own galaxy.

  Posted March 24, 2013 10:25 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Every object in this image is a star from our galaxy.
  And so is the spiky thing on the right.
  The spikes are diffraction spikes (optical artifact).
  wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike

  Posted March 24, 2013 10:27 PM