Of interest to lots of astronomers, but mostly just noise for us. We see lots of them. The cosmic rays can show up as points or as streaks. Stars are visible in every single image. In normal operations, they are seen to move left to right.
Stars are easy to spot when images are viewed as a sequence or movie.
In this image, examples of stars have been circled while ellipses are drawn around some examples of cosmic rays. Use this form to report a new comet. All fields below must be filled out. To see what others have reported, please see the recent reports page . To view comet reports from previous months please visit the archive pages .