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GALEX Helix Nebula

The famous Helix Nebula in ultraviolet from the GALEX mission. There's a version out there that includes infrared data from Spitzer, relegating the GALEX data merely to the blue channel. I think it deserves an image of its own, all by itself. Of course, now I want to go dig around in Spitzer's archive...

 

Red: NUV (Near ultraviolet)

Green: Pseudo (R+G 50/50)

Blue: FUV (Far ultraviolet)

 

North is up.

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Uploaded on May 14, 2016