Galaxy Zoo Talk

Chain of small galaxies?

  • avenger300 by avenger300

    I'm new to this website so forgive me if this has been brought up before, but I've never seen a chain of small galaxies like this. Is that what I'm seeing? Or something else?

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  • JeanTate by JeanTate in response to avenger300's comment.

    Welcome to Galaxy Zoo, avenger300!

    These are stars in our own Milky Way galaxy. The strange appearance is an #artifact of this being a #poorqualityimage. Here's a zoomed out view:

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    By using hashtags like #poorqualityimage, these fields will be flagged and, hopefully, removed swiftly (it's a huge waste of zooites' time to wait for 20 classifications of this sort of image, there's no scientific value in getting more than just one or two).

    Happy hunting! 😃

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