Largest Hubble Mosaics Ever Assembled

bobtheowl2 writes "The Hubble Heritage team of astronomers, who assemble many of the NASA Hubble Space Telescope's most stunning pictures, is celebrating its five-year anniversary with the release of the picturesque Sombrero galaxy. One of the largest Hubble mosaics ever assembled, this magnificent galaxy is nearly one-fifth the diameter of the full moon. The team used Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys to take six pictures of the galaxy and then stitched them together to create the final composite image. The photo reveals a swarm of stars in a pancake-shaped disk as well as a glowing central halo of stars."

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Re:It's a photoshop job.

[LMCBoy]

First of all, I don't see any stars in the ESO image that do not appear in the HST image, so what are you talking about?

Maybe you mean that the stars in the ESO image look more prominent than they do in the HST image. That's because the VLT is on the ground, so the stars (which are very pointlike in the HST image) are slightly blurred.