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Comment by wthomp

As responded above, they were persistent diffraction errors in the primary mirror phasing. Think of it like those diffraction spikes from Hubble.

Indeed the video is almost entirely “fabricated” by motion smoothing and interpolation between images taken a year or two apart.

parent wthomp 28 days ago

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