strange center

• by tschubu

  What kind of objekt in the center of this galaxy might it be?

  Posted November 17, 2015 10:29 PM

• by JeanTate in response to tschubu's comment.

  Welcome to Galaxy Zoo, tschubu!

  This is not a galaxy, it's a star; the weird thing in the center is an artifact (the camera's CCDs saturated). Here's what the field looks like in SDSS:

  

  Hope this helps and happy hunting! 😃

  Posted November 18, 2015 8:10 AM