Putting It All Together

You have investigated how to color balance and chromatically order an image to communicate scientific information. Using the color filter tools, you have:

  • Identified the hottest and coolest stars in a star cluster (see page 12)
  • Located star forming regions in a spiral galaxy (see page 14)
  • Detected far away galaxies (see page 16)

Next you will create a new color image and investigate a scientific question of your choosing.

The Antennae Galaxies
The Antennae Galaxies (also known as NGC 4038 and 4039) are a pair of distorted colliding spiral galaxies about 70 million light-years away, in the constellation of Corvus (The Crow).
Source: Wikimedia Commons Credit: ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO). Visible light image: the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope

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