Galaxy Zoo Talk

Red Star

  • chapelgate by chapelgate

    I am new to this site but when looking at this image I amazed I assume image is a star but would love to know more?

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  • zoob1172 by zoob1172

    Know more about ? In this situation the small classification object is labelled #wrongsize and the star artifact is unimportant.

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  • ElisabethB by ElisabethB moderator

    Hi chapelgate and welcome to the Zoo

    As zoob1172 mentioned the galaxy in the centre is very small and difficult to classify. If you find images like these you can tag them here in Talk with #wrong_size. The spiky red thing to the left is a foreground star from our galaxy. The colours and spikes are all optical artifacts.

    Happy hunting !

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