what is this?

• by JacobusXIII

  It looks like 17 small galaxies clumped together.

  Posted April 30, 2015 1:36 AM

• by Capella05 moderator in response to JacobusXIII's comment.

  No, no galaxies 😃 They are all artifacts that were not removed during processing. Could be due to bad pixels close to the edge of the CCD chip.

  We call them cosmic confetti 😃

  Posted April 30, 2015 5:43 PM