odd bright spots
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It looks like there's multiple bright spots in this one, anyone have any Idea about them?
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JeanTate
Welcome to Galaxy Zoo, Ragin_Canadian!
This is an Illustris sim (see this GZ blog post for some details). O see kist ~four 'bright spots', two at ~5 o'clock (one blue, one red), one each at ~4 (red) and ~7 (yellow-white). The blue one is part of the sim (it represents a region of recent/current star-formation); the others are part of the SDSS 'canvas' onto which the sim is displayed.
The hundreds of red and green faint spots (there are likely one or two blue ones too) are 'noise' in the SDSS canvas, and perhaps faint parts of the Illustris sim.
Hope this helps, and happy hunting! 😃
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ElisabethB
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Hi Ragin_Canadian and welcome to the Zoo
The blue clumps in these Illustris images are star forming areas inthe galaxy. See this blog post for more info :
“Blue stuff” in the Illustris galaxy imagesHappy hunting ! 😄
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