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• by emmid16

  What on earth is the pink thing in this picture?

  Posted July 3, 2017 9:57 PM

• by zoob1172

  elephant?

  Posted July 3, 2017 10:34 PM

• by ElisabethB moderator

  Hi emmid16 and welcome to the Zoo

  The white/pink thingy is a foreground star from our galaxy. The colours, spikes and weird pink centre are all optical artifacts.

  Hope this helps and happy hunting ! 😄

  Posted July 4, 2017 2:14 PM