Galaxy Zoo Talk

Possible death of star?

by sweetkillbehemoth

looks like a star is goin nova

Posted June 16, 2013 6:19 AM
by sweetkillbehemoth

#colours #hexagoncentre? #star

Posted June 16, 2013 6:34 AM
by ElisabethB moderator

This is just a bright star. The colors, rings and spikes are all optical artifacts

Posted June 16, 2013 9:42 AM
by condesermike

It even looks like the telescope had a hexagonal mirror.

Posted June 21, 2013 12:50 AM

Subject: AGZ0003373

by JeroenHK

beautiful rings.

Posted September 13, 2012 6:19 PM
by Trow2

Is this the result of the optics, or is this some kind of cosmic event?

Posted September 10, 2013 11:43 PM
by ExplosiveD

the dual rings with the flaring suggest optics, but I'm no rocket scientist

Posted January 2, 2014 9:02 PM
by jonathanstcroix

wow very bright #star or #supernova

Posted February 12, 2014 5:33 AM
by DatGuy

Supernova?

Posted April 30, 2014 7:15 PM
by Capella05 moderator

I wish! 😃 Those are diffraction spikes and arcs around a bright foreground star. The amazing artifacts are caused by over saturation.

Posted April 30, 2014 7:20 PM