Orange lines on Aladin lite

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TL;DR
When browsing on Aladin Lite I saw these orange lines
So basically, I was looking at the stars in the GAIA dataset on Aladin Lite for a project and I saw these two orange lines:
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The coordinates of the star I was looking at that is right near these lines is RA 20 30 17.96 DEC +24 41 22.3
Anyone know what these lines are? I'm just curious, since I couldn't tell...

I have a feeling that an "Oh it's just that oops" moment is incoming...
 
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hmm that would make sense I guess...
 
TensorCalculus said:
TL;DR Summary: When browsing on Aladin Lite I saw these orange lines

So basically, I was looking at the stars in the GAIA dataset on Aladin Lite for a project and I saw these two orange lines:
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The coordinates of the star I was looking at that is right near these lines is RA 20 30 17.96 DEC +24 41 22.3
Anyone know what these lines are? I'm just curious, since I couldn't tell...

I have a feeling that an "Oh it's just that oops" moment is incoming...
I’ve been told that these lines are cosmic artifacts captured by the telescope when a satellite or small piece of space debris passes through the field of view. They say they are not real lines, but…