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I always love this kind of stuff. Historically, a lot of my desktop wallpaper has been this or astronomical photo.
As cool as it looks, though, I have to say that all of those things are so touched up and enhanced and colorized that it's almost wrong to call it a picture.
I always love this kind of stuff. Historically, a lot of my desktop wallpaper has been this or astronomical photo.
As cool as it looks, though, I have to say that all of those things are so touched up and enhanced and colorized that it's almost wrong to call it a picture.
all of those things are so touched up and enhanced and colorized
Space telescopes aren't exactly like handheld cameras, so the pictures often need some editing.
a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3/UVIS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Several filters were used to sample narrow wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are: Blue: F435W Green: F606W Red: F814W
> all of those things are so touched up and enhanced and colorized
Space telescopes aren't exactly like handheld cameras, so the pictures often need some editing.
> a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3/UVIS instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Several filters were used to sample narrow wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are: Blue: F435W Green: F606W Red: F814W
[sauce](https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2020/01/4615-Image)
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Explanation: In this Hubble Space Telescope image the bright, spiky stars lie in the foreground toward the heroic northern constellation Perseus and well within our own Milky Way galaxy. In sharp focus beyond is UGC 2885, a giant spiral galaxy about 232 million light-years distant. Some 800,000 light-years across compared to the Milky Way's diameter of 100,000 light-years or so, it has around 1 trillion stars. That's about 10 times as many stars as the Milky Way. Part of a current investigation to understand how galaxies can grow to such enormous sizes, UGC 2885 was also part of astronomer Vera Rubin's pioneering study of the rotation of spiral galaxies. Her work was the first to convincingly demonstrate the dominating presence of dark matter in our universe.