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English: Ceci n'est pas une étoile.
Picture of Proxima Centauri. I've been meaning to do a picture like this for a while, now. The confusing nature of astronomical imagery is something I often think about. Here, the actual star is less than a single pixel in apparent width and yet most people understand it to be a picture of a star. It is really a picture of a point spread function. You could get more pedantic than this if you wanted but the simple fact is that this is not a star. archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?mission=hst&id=... Red: F814W Green: pseudo Blue: F675W North is 15.12° counter-clockwise from up. |
| Date | Taken on 2 November 2014, 03:51:37 |
| Source | Proxima |
| Author | geckzilla |
| Flickr sets | all astronomy; Hubble Processing; Illustration |
| Flickr tags | hubble; art; proximacentauri; star; notastar; hst; hla |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by geckzilla at https://flickr.com/photos/54209675@N00/15510366478. It was reviewed on 24 February 2024 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-2.0. |
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