Galaxy Zoo Talk

Strange object

by gzman313

What is this? and why does it looks like that? is it a star?

Posted September 11, 2012 3:15 PM
by x303

Looks like a planetary nebulae.

Posted March 5, 2013 9:41 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

Yup, that is a star from our galaxy, but the colors are not real (optical artifacts).
Something went very wrong with the imaging (filters, etc).

Posted March 5, 2013 9:44 PM

Subject: AGZ00028v1

by x303

Planetary Nebulae

Posted March 5, 2013 9:42 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

Nope, just a star from our galaxy with some very weird optical artifacts

Posted March 5, 2013 9:44 PM
by Voyyful

This one struck me as odd. Is it really just an optical artifact ElisabethB

Posted November 4, 2013 6:56 PM
by ElisabethB moderator

This is actually a star from our galaxy, and the colors are definitely artifacts. More weird images here :
http://tinyurl.com/GZartifacts

Posted November 4, 2013 7:00 PM