Planet

• by randy1984d

  Does this look lake a planet passing in front of the star?

  Posted July 6, 2014 1:43 AM

• by Morfeo

  Good eye!!,look like it's moving faster!

  Posted July 6, 2014 4:59 AM

• by dudrea

  This type of picture is too often seen to be that. Artifact is more probable

  Posted July 6, 2014 7:32 AM

• by planetaryscience

  Truthfully, this is more likely an artifact than a planet. Not only would a planet have to be extremely gigantic to do that to a star, but it would also be blurred, and a star would easily outshine the planet by a factor of several million.

  Posted July 6, 2014 5:46 PM

• by Del_Congdon

  Agreed. I think what's happening is the relative brightness of the star is overloading one or more of the sensor pixels. It's a smaller version of those big jaggy artifacts you see quite a lot in these images.

  Posted July 6, 2014 6:51 PM

• by planetaryscience in response to raedwulf's comment.

  You are exactly right.

  Posted July 7, 2014 1:51 AM

• by jKostet in response to raedwulf's comment.

  Yep, star bleed.

  Posted July 7, 2014 11:32 AM