Photo credit: ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST team
NASA / ESA’s Hubble Space Telescope recently captured a more vivid image of barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385 located 30 million light-years away in the constellation Fornax. Featuring several arms mixed together and an overall oval shape, while its center glows brightly.
Bright pink patches and filaments of dark red dust can also be seen spread across the center. This more recent image boasts a pinkish-red and umber shades, whereas the former image was dominated by cool blues. This chromatic variation was made in order to represent the different number and type of filters used to collect the data used to make the respective images.
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It is understandable to be a bit confused as to how the same galaxy, imaged twice by the same telescope, could be represented so differently in two different images. The reason is that — like all powerful telescopes used by professional astronomers for scientific research — Hubble is equipped with a range of filters,” said the ESA.
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