What is this? Star with bright green jets

• by Guildenstern42

  

  I saw this and it's amazing - an extremely bright stellar object that seems to emit two jets that are MUCH stronger than the rest of its light. I'm completely new to any practical astronomy, so it may very well be common, but I have to ask: what IS that? A pulsar, perhaps?

  Posted April 26, 2011 9:07 PM

• by Kerry_Wallis

  I'd love to know too!!

  Posted April 26, 2011 9:15 PM

• by AtomAnt

  looks like telescope lens distorsion...

  Posted April 30, 2011 10:21 PM

• by ttfnrob admin, scientist

  Yes this is usually caused by bleed on the detector from the bright source. We've been tagging them as #greenstripe just to collect them up. This one has a nice shape though.

  Posted May 2, 2011 9:45 PM

• by Kerry_Wallis

  Hehe I'll add greenstripe to my ever lengthening list of hashtags 😃

  Thanks for the feed back as to what things are. Really helps with the learning process =D

  Posted May 2, 2011 10:27 PM

• by Feylin

  yea! I've found one here too: http://talk.milkywayproject.org/objects/AMW00013b7
  I already thought it was some sort of distortion, since it looks REALLY different from all the other stuff on the photo's... but I still wondered what it was! 😃 thanks for clearing that up!

  Posted May 19, 2011 8:12 PM