Star ?

• by Harold_Turner

  Is this a star ?
  It looks like it is dragging in material from three different points

  Posted February 9, 2016 5:58 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Hi Harold_Turner and welcome to the Zoo

  The green object is probably a foreground star from our galaxy. Unfortunately we have no way to check it out since this is a simulated galaxy from the Illustris data set.

  More info here : http://blog.galaxyzoo.org/2015/11/11/blue-stuff-in-the-illustris-galaxy-images/

  Happy hunting ! 😄

  Posted February 9, 2016 7:46 PM