Subject: AGZ0000cg0
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by dosey
What is the diagonal that doesn't seem to interact with this #bar #spiral ?
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by ElisabethB moderator
That could be a diffraction spike (optical artifact) caused by a star outside of this image
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by dosey
Thank you Elisabeth, I just thought it was the same colour as the galaxy
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I wonder if it's the outside of another galaxy edge on.
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by ElisabethB moderator
If you mean the faint line(bottom left),it's probably a diffraction spike from a nearby star
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffraction_spikePosted
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barred spiral - bar not aligned to major axis
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