GREEN GALAXY WITH PINK BLOBS

• by john_russell

  Great colours! What's going on here?

  Posted January 14, 2013 9:27 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Agree on the colours, but this is just a foreground star where something went very wrong with the imaging/filters. The colours and the weird center(s) are just optical artifacts.

  Posted January 14, 2013 9:45 PM

• by elizabeth_s

  http://skyservice.pha.jhu.edu/DR8/ImgCutout/getjpeg.aspx?ra=32.93622644&dec=46.86263905&scale=0.79224&width=512&height=512&opt=&query=

  Posted January 14, 2013 9:45 PM

• by A0087779

  Could be binary stars wrongly classified.

  Posted July 14, 2013 5:50 PM

• by fatha731

  I don't think one can really tell from SDSS pictures.

  Posted July 15, 2013 8:43 AM