Shape Identification
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Instead of a Galaxy, It seems to me a star with huge cloud of dust and gases around it. The core appears to be hot and glowing
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by ElisabethB moderator
Definitely not a star but a galaxy.
What you describe as a huge cloud of dust and gasses are actually millions and millions of stars.Posted
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by skyeconnery
What is the "trail" in upper RH corner?
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by JeanTate in response to skyeconnery's comment.
It's a diffraction spike, from the nearby bright star.
I wrote about these in a recent Object of the Day, in the Galaxy Zoo forum: Sunday, 4 May, 2014: Diffraction Spikes, of the SDSS Kind
Happy hunting! 😃
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