Galaxy Zoo Talk

FACES by Miss Tart

  • samhadel by samhadel

    In all my years, I have never seen anything like this. Those can't be gas jets and what's the big object in front? AGZ00001ju is the object

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Hi,
    This is actually a star from our galaxy.
    The spikes are diffraction spikes : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
    The colors, rings and blue spot are all optical artifacts

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