Galaxy Zoo Talk

Very bright object in top left. Can anyone help identify?

  • nottinghamman by nottinghamman

    After trying to help classify galaxies for a few hours I've come across this strange image and would be delighted if anyone could identify the object towards the top of the picture.

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Hi nottinghamman and welcome to the Zoo

    The bright spiky object, top left, is a foregound star fom our galaxy. The colors, spikes and weird center are all optical artifacts !

    Happy hunting ! 😄

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  • Rick_N. by Rick_N.

    Agreed. If one looks at the zoomed-out image, although the orientation is different, you can see the star more clearly.

    http://skyserver.sdss3.org/dr8/en/tools/explore/obj.asp?id=1237680505044992596

    Purple Over_exposed star

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