Galaxy Zoo Talk

seems like a 3 star cluster, is it?

  • manojyadav27 by manojyadav27

    it seems to me that two stars are in orbit with the third star which towards the right , however star on right seems strange too.

    Posted

  • Capella05 by Capella05 moderator

    The bright object on the right is indeed a star 😃

    The object on the left is infact the core or hub of the spiral galaxy you were classifying - it looks a bit weird as this is an infrared image, and it appears to be slightly misaligned.

    Here is your galaxy (slightly rotated) viewed in the optical:

    enter image description here

    Posted

  • manojyadav27 by manojyadav27

    if this the core the galaxy then the second orange object below is part of galaxy or some other background star?

    Posted

  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    As explained in the comment above, the orange object is a foreground star from our galaxy.

    Posted