Supernova?

• by Mgorman

  What is the blue dot in lower spiral of this galaxy? Is it a Milky Way foreground star? Or something else? It resembles these supernova images: http://www.sdss.org/includes/sideimages/sn_gallery24.html

  Posted January 6, 2013 12:13 AM

• by Terrance_L._Johnson

  It looks like a more distant galaxy behind the central spiral galaxy. imho

  Posted January 6, 2013 12:57 AM

• by trevor_allen_faller

  the little blue dot is a galaxy,ever so small, but there it is, as a probably a satellite dwarf galaxy

  Posted January 6, 2013 12:59 AM