NGC 5982 (2013)

Today’s APOD (2013 Oct 16) Featured this galaxy in a photo by Stephen Leshin. The center galaxy of his image, NGC 5982 is an elliptical shell galaxy. I was curious to see if there was any data for the galaxy in the HLA and there was so I (rather hastily) processed it.

Processing note: The chip gap was filled with cloned data to make it less distracting. You will notice small background galaxies cut off along its edge. Sorry! It can’t be helped. I could lessen the hard lines but I think they are useful for letting people know where real data is absent.

Red: HST_9399_06_ACS_WFC_F814W_sci
Green: Pseudo
Blue: HST_9399_06_ACS_WFC_F606W_sci

North is NOT up

Copyright information:
Hubble data is public domain, but I put a lot of work into combining it into beautiful color images. The minimal credit line should read: NASA / ESA / J. Schmidt

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License.