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Credit: T. Burchell and B. Saxton (NRAO/AUI/NSF) from data provided by A. C. Boley and L. van Zee, Indiana University; D. Schade and S. Côté, Herzberg Institute for Astrophysics
This gorgeous face-on spiral galaxy is called NGC 3596. This image combines Hydrogen-alpha emission (red), visible light in the R-band (white), and neutral hydrogen 21cm gas emission (blue) from the Very Large Array (VLA). What you see when you combine the invisible waves with visible ones is the enormous shroud of gas surrounding this galaxy. Mature stars twinkle in white, new stars shine their nursery clouds in reds, and the gas for future stars glows in blue.
Provider: National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Image Source: https://public.nrao.edu/gallery/ngc-3596-is-more-than-meets-the-eye/
Curator: NRAO/AUI/NSF, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/)
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