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Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by BuildTheRobots on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @09:20AM (#26077727)
Any idea what these little green lines are?

https://viewer.legacysurvey.org/?ra=165.1234&dec=28.9911&lay...

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Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by kstrauser on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @12:13PM (#26079980)
Huh! Great question. There are quite a few of them right there.
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Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by dalmo3 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @04:06PM (#26082377)
Seeing as those lines look like pure R/G/B, I'm guessing sensor fault.
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Re:New 10 Terapixel Image of the Night Sky Contains 1B Galaxies by ySteeK on Saturday February 13, 2021 @06:37PM (#26128124)
most likely these are cosmic rays hitting the sensor
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