eso_eso1148c December 7th, 2011
Credit: ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2. Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin.
This wide-field image of the sky around the unusual double star SS Leporis is a colour composite made from exposures from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 (DSS2). The field of view is approximately 2.7 degrees. SS Leporis is the bright star at the centre. The coloured rings and the four spikes around the star are artifacts of the photographic process and the optics of the telescope used, and are not real.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1148c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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