What is this?

• by garance

  I don't know anything, Can anybody tell me what this is? What is the blue thing in the middle of this explosion?
  Image AGZ0003b89

  Posted August 21, 2013 1:55 PM

• by Terrance_L._Johnson

  it is an overexposed foreground star. the colors and "spikes" are optical artifacts caused by diffusion.

  Posted August 21, 2013 5:06 PM