Galaxy Zoo Talk

galaxy

  • m.c.j.bakker by m.c.j.bakker

    is this an artifact or a star just behind the galacy?

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    It's a star in front of the galaxy.
    Remember all the individual stars you can see in these images are stars from our own Milky Way. The galaxies are very, very far away.

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