The image we have then is not Photoshop or the result of some very creative artist but on the contrary this image is real and has been taken from images of 3 different telescopes.
The image is of two colliding galaxies, the Antennae galaxies, named for a kind of "arms" to show that were generated in the collision. In fact, the collision, which began more than 100 million years ago is still happening though is about 62 million light years from Earth.
The different colors correspond to each of the 3 telescopes took pictures:
· The blue parts correspond to Chandra X-ray Observatory, which took the image in December 1999.
· The sides are golden brown Hubble telescope in July 2004 and February 2005.
• Finally the red parts were taken in December 2003 by the Spitzer telescope.
The space is filled with stunning images and beautiful so I advise you to visit chandra site, Hubble site where you will find many more photographs of space objects in high resolution. After this I find no excuse to continue to maintain the boring default wallpaper on the computer.
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