Stephans Quintet
by Ram Vasudev
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Stephans Quintet
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Ram Vasudev
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This is a significantly enhanced version of Stephan’s Quintet, recently imaged by NASA’s James Webb Telescope. I have modified the original raw image (which is in the public-domain) to enhance the colors, beauty, balance and luminosity, in order to provide you a breathtaking, high quality, fine art print through this website.
Stephan's Quintet is a visual grouping of five galaxies, four of which form the first compact galaxy group ever discovered. The group, in the constellation Pegasus, was discovered by Edouard Stephan in 1877 at the Marseille Observatory. The group is the most studied of all the compact galaxy groups.
The raw NASA image was captured by Webb’s Near-Infrared Camera (NIRcam) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI). With its infrared vision and extremely high spatial resolution, Webb shows unprecedented details in this galaxy group.
This is a false-color image and shows sparkling clusters of millions of young stars and starburst regions of fresh star birth. Also shown are sweeping tails of gas, dust and stars pulled from several of the galaxies due to gravitational interactions, and huge shock waves as one of the galaxies, NGC 7318B, collides with the cluster. These regions surrounding the central pair of galaxies are shown in false-colors red and gold.
MIRI data is shown in yellow and orange colors, and NIRCam’s capture is shown in blue and white.
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October 23rd, 2022
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