Spiral Galaxy Tracings (IMAGE)

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences

Spiral Galaxy Tracings

Caption

This image shows the sum of 15 independent tracings of the spiral structure of the same galaxy displayed using a violet to red rainbow color map. The violet areas indicate no agreement and the red areas indicate greatest agreement between tracings.

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Ian Hewitt

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