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Published on Sep 25, 2012
Why do photos of stars often have spiky, pointy bits of them? These are called diffraction spikes and some people even add them artificially!
Here are explained by Professor Mike Merrifield (University of Nottingham) and Nik Szmanek (astrophotographer). Mike tweets at https://twitter.com/ProfMike_M