Galaxy Zoo Talk

Is that a quasar beside the galaxy or a star?

  • Betelguse by Betelguse

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  • Betelguse by Betelguse

    *Quasar(https://goo.gl/images/RS5asl)r

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Do you mean the small dot at 4 o'clock ? That could just as well be a foreground star from our galaxy.

    And the bright spikes at the right are diffraction spikes caused by a bright foreground star from our galaxy.

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