galaxy and what? lol

• by Amyleelucero

  i was just wondering if you know what the two round colored circles are? I'm pretty new to this. TY

  Posted February 27, 2017 5:19 AM

• by Budgieye moderator

  Extremely colourful, but it is an artifact, when different coloured images haven't been misaligned when stacked. Green and purple is an edge-on galaxy. Round is a white star in our own galaxy. Here is the SDSS 12 image

  

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr12/SkyserverWS/ImgCutout/getjpeg?TaskName=Skyserver.Explore.Image&ra=134.976693865511&dec=0.822333155380206&scale=0.2&width=200&height=200&opt=G

  http://skyserver.sdss.org/dr12/en/tools/explore/Summary.aspx?id=1237674462023582140

  Posted February 27, 2017 5:38 AM

• by Amyleelucero in response to Budgieye's comment.

  thank you

  Posted March 2, 2017 2:35 AM