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Astronomy on Drugs

Posted by michael on from the tripping-the-light-fantastic dept.

Mdog writes: "CNN has a really cool story on a "golden galaxy" recently discovered by the Hubble telescope. It has a purple halo, dude! Largish yummy pic."

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  1. Interesting by SIGFPE · · Score: 3

    It looks like obtaining true-colour images can be a tricky process involving multiple exposures using different filters. It would be interesting to know exactly how many steps the space photos we see go through before we reach us. We have to take a lot on trust!
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  2. Isn't that a false colour image? by SIGFPE · · Score: 4
    So those colours are merely what some operator with an image processing package chose to make them to make UV and IR visible.

    Anyway, more info and a 2K (!!!) res image here

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  3. Homer by FreeMath · · Score: 3

    Mmmmmmmmmm.... Celestial Dounut.....

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