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Leaving a planet setting course for the system's Space Station, I noticed the following icon showing up on my HUD:

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Being the responsible Starman I am, I immediately set a course for it, only to realize minutes later there was no indication of distance, and I could be doing this for hours on end without actually getting anywhere. Space is a large space, after all.

My initial thought was that it represented a stronghold, since it looks like a typical symbol for a gate or donjon, but AFAIK there is no such thing in No Man's spaaaace. Its red colour might suggest it's part of a mission branch, but it's not anywhere in my log.

Does anyone know what this icon means?

One Reddit post suggests "the rectangles are discovered buildings that you may need to go to for various reasons", but I've never seen this red one before, and buildings are usually on planets, not towards the edge of a solar system—but that could just be a bug.
They are also all over the place on the Wiki, and present in a lot of the older screenshots posted online. Are they perhaps obsolete icons?
This post also doesn't help, because as far as I'm aware this is not the spaceship icon.

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  • Funnily enough, it's in a screenshot of a question from 5 years ago that mine was similar to, but the question itself is about a different icon. Commented yesterday
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    Did you by any chance summon the Anomaly and then move away WITHOUT entering? I heard about a bug where the Anomaly despawn if you get far enough but leaves a ghost icon on the hud... Commented yesterday
  • @SPArcheon I'll try it out, but I doubt it since the Anomaly has a purple octagonal icon with a star symbol inside it. Commented yesterday
  • @SPArcheon It did indeed reproduce it both times I tried it. Commented yesterday
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    For disclosure - I found this info in this reddit post. Couldn't check it now but it was worth mentioning and apparently that was indeed the issue. Want me to add it as an answer? Commented yesterday

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As the original poster confirmed in a comment this is indeed a bug in the current version of the game.

I saw some players mentioning it on these reddit post: source 1, source 2. Basically , if the player summons the Anomaly but then immediately moves very far from it the structure will at some point despawn and leave out a glitched icon in its place (that doesn't even match the normal Anomaly icon).

I could not find any confirmation about how to fix the issue without shutting down the game (nor I know if it persist on the game save file).

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    Summoning the Anomaly again didn't get rid of the icon. Commented yesterday

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