A unique galaxy: Hubble reveals a stellar maelstrom in the constellation Toucan

The Hubble telescope captures spiral galaxy NGC 7329 with its WFC3 wide-angle camera

Hubble and Artists Create Unique Color Image of Spiral Galaxy

The image has been processed using four different Hubble filters, and the photo shows the characteristic structure of spiral galaxies – twisting arms counterclockwise.

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Object NGC 7329 discovered by the British astronomer John Herschel, who first observed the galaxy on July 20, 1835, according to the European Space Agency.

Each of Hubble’s filters covers different areas of the light spectrum, from ultraviolet to optical and infrared, but first a photo come out in monochrome.

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Later, the artists figure out which color is more suitable for a particular filter, and color the received photos.

Finally, images captured with different filters are add up togetherand we get a colorful image of a distant galaxy.

We will remind, earlier NASA telescope photographed a supermassive cluster of galaxies.

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