Starship Asterisk*

Perhaps you are not accustomed to looking at images which have been processed to enhance specific detail ... What structures shown in the image do you see as possibly false, and how would that affect the interpretation that we are seeing two cones of material? I don't doubt the validity of the conc...

[quote="Chris Peterson"] This image has obviously been heavily processed to bring out detail, and such processing often emphasize otherwise more subtle optical artifacts like these.[/quote] I would conclude that the details of the image which we are looking for are as subtle as the optical...

This image has a lot of distortion (stars near the edges are elongated), and five of the bright stars show hexagonal spike pattern, possibly artifact of the optics. Can anybody comment on these artifacts?