Green Pea / asteroid

• by ratprincess

  Is the object on the upper left side a green pea or simply an artifact?

  Posted June 20, 2016 5:44 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  See the comments to the left ! 😄

  Posted June 20, 2016 6:05 PM

• by ratprincess in response to ElisabethB's comment.

  I must be seeing things cuz I could see the arms spiraling when squinting.... 8-X lol

  Posted June 20, 2016 6:31 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Definitely an asteroid, image is clear in DECaLS Browser, and if you click on SDSS images, it disappears (cus it moves)

  

  Posted June 20, 2016 8:16 PM

• by ratprincess in response to Budgieye's comment.

  I realized that it was not shown in the SDSS image. Cool. So this is how I tell whether something is an asteroid. Thanks. Maybe I will eat more green peas and one of these days I might see a pea. lol

  Posted June 25, 2016 6:00 PM

• by ratprincess in response to ElisabethB's comment.

  BTW, I thought elliptical have stomach, too? 8-O

  Posted June 25, 2016 6:01 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Some information about asteroids in past images

  8.3 asteroids, ice worlds http://talk.galaxyzoo.org/#/boards/BGZ0000001/discussions/DGZ0000wrb?page=8&comment_id=53d8bc1e0d43f776b00010bb

  Posted June 25, 2016 7:09 PM

• by ratprincess in response to Budgieye's comment.

  The green smudge is probably an asteroid. And I'm not sure I'd call
  this galaxy an elliptical. The bulge is rather prominent.

  by ElisabethB MODERATOR

  Sorry, the stomach part was in relation to Elisabeth's reply concerning her uncertainty whether the galaxy is an elliptical due to the prominence of the bulge. 😄

  Posted July 3, 2016 6:25 PM

• by Budgieye moderator

  I think the galaxy is too fuzzy for me to decide how much of a bulge it has.

  Posted July 3, 2016 7:22 PM