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"We are drinking from a firehose," Gemini Observatory chief scientist Janice Lee replied to Brammer's post. Lee is behind the program that produced the data, inM74, also known as NGC 628, is roughly 32 million light-years from Earth and is often used as a textbook example of a spiral galaxy, a class of galaxy that is made up of a flat, rotating disk with a fainter halo of stars clustering around it.
In case you're wondering, the strange purple cast is caused by interstellar polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons making "the filters used for the blue and red channels brighter relative to the green," as Brammer explained in
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