Amateurs team with Hubble to produce extraordinary image

02/05/2013 11:48PM

Amateurs team with Hubble to produce extraordinary image

Working with astronomical image processors 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 combined it with his own ground-based observations to assemble a photo illustration of the magnificent spiral galaxy M106.


Comments:

  • John999R [John Shutz]
  • 02/15/2013 07:20AM
I was really anticipating expanding the photo after reading the article and to my disappointment it doesn't expand, its the size of an avatar. Without a larger rendition the article was useless.