NGC 105 from Hubble

This image from the Hubble Space Telescope displays spiral galaxy NGC 105, which lies 215 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. NGC 105 appears to be plunging edge-on into a collision with a neighbouring galaxy, but this is just the result of the chance alignment of the two objects in the night sky. NGC 105’s elongated neighbor is actually far more distant and remains relatively unknown to astronomers. These misleading conjunctions occur frequently in astronomy, a great example being NGC 3314: https://theastroenthusiast.com/ngc-3314-from-hubble/

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All data was taken from the following the proposal: https://archive.stsci.edu/proposal_search.php?id=16269&mission=hst

Red: f814w
Green: f555w
Blue: f350lp

Processing:

• Images were aligned based on coordinates
• Images were stacked and drizzled
• TGV + MMT denoise on each channel
• RGB color combination
• Arcsin H stretch
• HDR multiscale transform
• Curves transformation
• MLT denoise
• Unsharp Mask
• Curves transformation