Bright Pink Object
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Can anyone say what the bright pink object is? It has kind of a spiral shape, but who has ever seen a spiral that color. Could it be some kind of voorwerp?
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by dj_tjitso
*reviving this old discussion
The pink object is clearly a galaxy, but why is it pink? Artifact? Chromatic aberrations? Other?
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by Capella05 moderator
It looks like a filter / processing problem - here is the zoomed out SkyServer image:
You can see that the other small galaxies are afflicted with the same problem.
Remember - the colours you are seeing are not real - they are applied (1 per filter) during image processing. The original images are greyscale.
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by dj_tjitso
I see what you're talking about. Thanks for explaining.
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by Capella05 moderator
No worries 😃
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