Galaxy Zoo Talk

What is that thing on the left?

  • Iwannabeadorito by Iwannabeadorito

    It looks odd in inverted colors.

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  • JeanTate by JeanTate in response to Iwannabeadorito's comment.

    Welcome to Galaxy Zoo, Iwannabeadorito!

    It's a star, in own Milky Way galaxy. The strange colors - normal and inverted - are due to saturation in at least one of the CCDs used to create this composite (i.e. color) image; the number of photons which hit the central few pixels in at least one of the CCDs in the DECaLS camera caused the 'well' to overflow with electrons ...

    Hope this helps, and happy hunting! 😃

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