Galaxy Zoo Talk

Artifact or overlapping?

  • Cosmina by Cosmina

    Hello! Can someone tell me what is that? I've never seen such kind of artifact so I thought maybe it is actually something else.

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Hi Cosmina

    The bright white object in the centre of the image is a foreground star from our galaxy. The colours, spikes and weird blue centre are all optical artifacts.

    Happy hunting ! 😄

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