Galaxy Zoo Talk

neutron star?

  • moonball250 by moonball250

    what is on the right

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Hi moonball250 and welcome to the Zoo

    The object to the left is just a foreground star from our galaxy. The colors, spikes and weird center are all optical artifacts.

    Happy hunting ! 😄

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  • Budgieye by Budgieye moderator

    just for fun, an image of a neutron star, rather boring

    enter image description here

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star#mediaviewer/File:IsolatedNeutronStar.jpg

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Good thing there is an arrow pointing to it ! 😄 And it really doesn't look like much ! ;D

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  • Budgieye by Budgieye moderator

    neutron star in center of Crab Neblua, in Google Sky, with X-ray telescope. There are two stars close together, I think the neutron star is to the left.

    https://www.google.com/sky/#latitude=22.014131341325147&longitude=-96.36564409255982&zoom=16&Spitzer=0.00&ChandraXO=100.00&Galex=0.00&IRAS=0.00&WMAP=0.00&Cassini=0.00&slide=8&mI=1&oI=4

    It is just outside the dr10 footprint.

    Isolated Neutron star above is also out the of the Dr10 footprint. Most Milky Way objects are, since SDSS avoids the Milky Way.

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