The Milky Way Project Talk

Is this an example of a bow shock?

  • heracleum by heracleum

    Just to lower right of center bow shock with the arc to the right of the star?

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  • JCoop by JCoop

    It does sort of look like it to me - I may have marked it as such when I saw it. It's kind of hard to say since there are only two tutorial examples (here: http://www.milkywayproject.org/#/guide).

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  • RLBeaton by RLBeaton scientist

    Hmm, I'm not completely sure if this is actually a bow shock or not. It often happens in astronomy that classification is not straight forward!
    The best thing to do is label it as "bow shock" and "other" -- this way both science teams will be alerted to the object.

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  • JCoop by JCoop

    Ahhh. Eureka moment. "both science teams will be alerted". This should be a mentioned more prominently. I'll be marking my images differently after reading this.

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