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• by lilleypovak

  What is the purple blue thing?

  Posted November 18, 2015 3:16 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Hi lilleypovak and welcome to the Zoo

  The bright white object (bottom of the image) with the purple/blue spike is a foreground star from our galaxy. the colors, spikes and weird coloured centre are all optical artifacts.

  Happy hunting ! 😄

  Posted November 18, 2015 4:53 PM