seems like a 3 star cluster, is it?
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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.
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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:
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by manojyadav27
if this the core the galaxy then the second orange object below is part of galaxy or some other background star?
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by ElisabethB moderator
As explained in the comment above, the orange object is a foreground star from our galaxy.
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