Blue?

• by dbuck53

  Looks like a possible merger, but the two blue areas, larger one below and smaller one above the bulge make me wonder what I am seeing as I have no idea what the varying colors I see imply. I previously assumed colors indicated distance and red shift due to motion.

  Posted June 4, 2014 5:38 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Hi dbuck53 and welcome to the Zoo

  These objects are not galaxies but stars from our galaxy. But the colors are not real, something went wrong during the imaging. More weird images here : http://tinyurl.com/GZartifacts

  Happy hunting ! 😄

  Posted June 4, 2014 6:01 PM