#asteroid or solar flare?
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by stonepenny
#asteroid or solar flare? To the right of largest central (ish) star
Image AAZ0000mpc
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by Dr.Asteroid scientist, admin
Just a glitch of noise. Most of the transient stuff on these images is just irregularities in the chip from cosmic rays, coincidental atmospheric scintillation and so on. Raw data has a real look of slight rattiness all the time.
To put it in perspective, a Hubble image is worked on for hours before it's considered presentable to the public. These were processed in seconds.
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