https://www.legacysurvey.org//viewer/?ra=187.4460&dec=7.9899&layer=ls-dr10-model&zoom=10
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looks old. hopefully still filled with life.
That’s the model layer, which isn’t the actual imagery. In reality, there are a bunch of background stars and galaxies around it.
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Thank you for telling me this is models of the sky but on this is a square shaped region in the galaxy had no stars so I think it is a glitch in the modeling layer
It’s not a glitch. The model is just trying to fit the data as a simple elliptical galaxy, and it smooths out things that don’t fit the model (in this case, background stars). The square is just the area that is being modeled.
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