Amateur uses the Hubble Space Telescope to produce the most beautiful galaxy photograph ever

In another victory for citizen science , doc and astrophotographer Robert Gendler has created the most glorious image we ’ve ever seen of the helical galaxy M106 . He did it by combine his own ground - based picture taking of the galaxy with images taken by the Hubble quad telescope . Click to enlarge .

This is a corking reminder that citizen scientific discipline , done by educated amateurs , is implausibly authoritative when it arrive to observance and datum collection . This photograph also build it clear how much of the astrophotography we see is the result of mosaic which unite many images of the same object to give us a clear view .

According to HubbleSite :

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Working with astronomical range processor at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore , Md. , renowned astrophotographer Robert Gendler has taken science data from the Hubble Space Telescope ( HST ) archive and unite it with his own ground - based observations to assemble a photo instance of the splendid spiraling galaxy M106 .

Gendler retrieved archival Hubble images of M106 to tack a mosaic of the center of the Galax urceolata . He then used his own and fellow astrophotographer Jay GaBany ’s watching of M106 to immix with the Hubble datum in areas where there was less insurance coverage , and eventually , to replete in the gob and gaps where no Hubble data existed .

The centre of the galaxy is indite almost entirely of HST datum taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys , Wide Field Camera 3 , and Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 detectors . The outer spiral arms are preponderantly HST information color with priming - based data point taken by Gendler ’s and GaBany ’s 12.5 - inch and 20 - inch scope , located at very dark remote sites in New Mexico . The image also reveal the optic part of the “ anomalous subdivision ” of M106 , see here as red , glowing hydrogen discharge .

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