Galaxy Zoo examining

• by rowley.m047

  I just thought that this was a super cool picture. What is the thing in the middle?

  Posted October 28, 2015 10:38 PM

• by KWillett scientist, admin, translator

  The bright thing is a star; the black/purple bits in the middle are image artifacts from the CCD camera. The star was bright enough to saturate and overload the pixels in the detector.

  Posted October 29, 2015 3:48 PM

• by rowley.m047 in response to KWillett's comment.

  Wow that makes it look so cool!

  Posted November 3, 2015 10:20 PM