Pan of Same galaxy, different filters

This luminous tangle of stars and dust is the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1385, that lies about 30 million light-years from Earth. The same galaxy was the subject of another Hubble Picture of the Week, but the two images are notably different. This more recent image has far more pinkish-red and umber shades, whereas the former image was dominated by cool blues. This chromatic variation is not just a creative choice, but also a technical one, made in order to represent the different number and type of filters used to collect the data that were used to make the respective images.

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ESA/Hubble & NASA, R. Chandar, J. Lee and the PHANGS-HST team
Music: Zero Project - Eden (https://zero-project.gr/)

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Release date:28 November 2023, 14:46
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