These three pictures, the first two taken by myself and the third taken by the hubble space telescope, have a stark difference between them that I recently noticed. The first picture is of the sun, obviously. The exposure was about a thousanth of a second, as I recall, as quick as my camera could take it.
The second picture was taken outside at dusk and was an 8-second exposure while steadied by a cement pillar.
The third picture was taken over the course of a year by the Hubble Space Telescope, and most objects in it are galaxies. There are, however, 6 stars, easily recognizable by their cross-like scattering pattern.
It is in these scattering patterns where my confusion lies. In the pictures that I took, the light spread out in a 6-sided pattern, hexagonally. In the Hubble picture, the light spreads out in 4 directions, quadrilaterally.
What is bending the light in our atmosphere to make it behave like this?
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