Galaxy Zoo Talk

Not sure about this

  • brineryte by brineryte

    I'm a novice at reading the associated data, but this looks more like a supernova remnant than a galaxy. Thoughts?

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  • Capella05 by Capella05 moderator in response to brineryte's comment.

    Hi and welcome to the Zoo @brineryte 😃

    This is actually a foreground star from our own galaxy - the strange colours are all artifacts caused by imaging errors with the telescope. Also looks like the different color filters were out of focus. In future just classify as a star / artifact 😃

    Here is the larger scale image from Skyserver:

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    Hope this helps and happy hunting!

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  • brineryte by brineryte

    Thanks so much for that awesome explanation! That clears it up for me 😃

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  • Capella05 by Capella05 moderator in response to brineryte's comment.

    No worries - glad it helped 😃

    Let us know if you have any other questions!

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