Are these Einstein rings or something else?

• by durneztj

  You can see 3 blue star-like objects. They have some sort of ring around them. It looked interesting so i marked them. Can someone explain what these are?

  Posted July 12, 2013 7:21 PM

• by durneztj

  Or could they be buried rings?

  Posted July 12, 2013 8:15 PM

• by Capella05 moderator

  They are stars 😃 These images are quite heavily processed, so the stars do sometimes look a bit odd. A good way of distinguishing stars from galaxies is looking for diffraction spikes. Can you see the spikes extending from the stars in this image? Most apparent in the one at the bottom.

  Posted July 12, 2013 8:43 PM