Spectacular Hubble Image Of Barred Spiral Galaxy NGC 1672

sciencedaily.com ^ | 4-4-2007 | staff writer

[bedolido]

Science Daily — The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has delivered an unrivalled snapshot of the nearby barred spiral galaxy NGC 1672. This remarkable image provides a high definition view of the galaxy’s large bar, its fields of star-forming clouds and dark bands of interstellar dust.

[kjam22]

It’s spectacular.... but not that spectacular when you understand that artists manipulated it.... colorized it etc. The picture the Hubble took doesn’t really look like that.

[RedCell]

Do you have a link for the original picture? Would be interesting to note the differences. Also, whenever I see a picture like this, I’m reminded of that line from the movie Contact; “So if it’s just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?”

Cheers!

[reagan_fanatic]

Link to larger picture.

[Domicile of Doom]

I officially declare NGC 1672 as my own private galaxy.

[ClaireSolt]

There is a calculation that it takes all of that to support the miracle that is us.

[P-40]

I always heard that if you had a ‘starship’ and could cruise the universe...it would be a very gray place.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I always heard that if you had a ‘starship’ and could cruise the universe...it would be a very gray place."

I suppose that all depends on who you got to decorate your starship...

[SengirV]

huh? Have you seen the RAW images of ANY space object? They look NOTHING like is finally released. And it’s not som much an artist doing to colorizations as it is a process based on scientific principles to match colors to heat, or to take multiple pictures of the same object thru filters and combining the images together.

Take a look at the raw images of any Mars orbiter compared to what the final release is. You’d be amazed. It’s such a standard practise that i’m just wondering why you even bring this up.

[bedolido]

another great website of Hubble photographs is located at: http://www.seds.org/hst/hst.html

[chimera]

Unbelievable. The Lord sure makes some beautiful galaxies.

[kjam22]

I just bring it up to make a point. I think the Hubble is a fine tool. But it should stand on it's own. That being said... the images it really captures aren't nearly as marketable to the general population.

It's a beautiful picture that they have produced. But it probably isn't reality.

Here's a link to information about how the hubble pictures are processed.

http://hubblesite.org/gallery/behind_the_pictures/meaning_of_color/

[kjam22]

I think the raw images of the earth that have been taken from various space flights are dramatically different than the raw images that hubble is capturing.

[econjack]

Uh...I don’t think so. I have a summer place right next to that big shinny thing in the upper-left corner of the picture...been going there for years...

[Basheva]

*****“So if it’s just us... seems like an awful waste of space. Right?”****

Nothing that the Hand of G-D makes is wasted.

Well, there are some people I can think of.....but then, even in that circumstance He knows best.

[Pablo64]

"I officially declare NGC 1672 as my own private galaxy."

Sounds good to me. It's gettin' a might crowded around here. When are you leaving? ;-)

[bedolido]

I second the declaration... although I would like the outward most star and it’s planets for myself

[SengirV]

Long term exposures(galazies) are VERY different than short term exposures. Even so, look for “Raw and Raw stretched” in the following story to see what REAL Mars images look like before SCIENTIFICLY based agorithms(not artists as you seem to think) are used to enhance the quality of the pictures - http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/msss/camera/images/4_6_face_release/index.html

[jpsb]

"the images it really captures aren't nearly as marketable "

Hubble take "pictures" in wave length not visible to the human red so in other to make the images visible the wave length of the image is shifted over into a wave lenght visible to us. This is standard operating procedure and has been ever since infra rad, ultra violet, micro wave and x-ray observation became possible.

[jpsb]

the human red =the human eye