Stripe

• by Emcc

  There´s a stripe comming out of this galaxy

  Posted March 27, 2013 7:27 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  The spike is a diffraction spike (optical artifact) cuased by a bright star outside of this image.
  wiki : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spike
  Here's the zoomed out (and rotated) image :
  

  Posted March 27, 2013 7:34 PM