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Arp188. Merge and Processing of Hubble’s shots of the Tadpole Galaxy, Benoit Blanco

Arp188. Merge and Processing of Hubble’s shots of the Tadpole Galaxy

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Arp188. Merge and Processing of Hubble’s shots of the Tadpole Galaxy, Benoit Blanco

Arp188. Merge and Processing of Hubble’s shots of the Tadpole Galaxy

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The distorted shape has been caused by the intrusion of a small galaxy. It was particularly hard to hide the merge artefacts in order to reveal this stunning background of thousands of spiral, elliptical and infant galaxies.

This image is a 3 channel false color composite, where blue indicates emission at 475nm, green at 606nm, and red at 814nm.

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