Stars?

• by CptBowmore

  Are these different stars or things like small galaxies? Might be a stupid question but I'm kinda new to this

  Posted July 26, 2014 11:16 PM

• by JeanTate

  Welcome to Galaxy Zoo, CptBowmore!

  They are all #stars, and also all #artifacts.

  This is a #poorqualityimage, from a field which contains a lot of artifacts. IMO zooites have provided enough clicks for the SCIENTISTs (that's a title) to decide there's no scientific value in serving this - and related - images up, especially to novices such as yourself (where it nearly always causes confusion rather than enlightenment). However, for whatever reason, or combo of reasons, you and I and lostlens et al. will keep getting them for some time to come, it seems.

  Here's a zoomed out view, centered on AGZ000176m, with the Field boundaries marked; the poorqualityimage fields are obvious (all those green stars!):

  

  Happy hunting! 😃

  Posted July 26, 2014 11:27 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Hi CptBowmore

  Yes all these objects are foreground stars from our galaxy. Sometimes the software gets confused ! That is where we come in ! All your clicks are very valuable ! So, keep them coming !

  Thanks for classifying ! 😄

  Posted July 27, 2014 12:20 AM