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AM 0619-271 by Judy Schmidt Via Flickr: A magnificent barred spiral galaxy with arms tightly wound into near continuous circles. This was colorized using PanSTARRS z/i/g survey data. I processed the center somewhat heavily to make the lines of dust more apparent. Establishing HST's Low Redshift Archive of Interacting Systems Luminosity: ACS/WFC F606W Red: PanSTARRS z Green: PanSTARRS i Blue: PanSTARRS g North is 45.34° counter-clockwise from up.
AM 1914-603 (Color) by Judy Schmidt Via Flickr: Color added by using this ESO image under a CC BY 4.0 license. Please include ESO in the attribution if using this image, like so: NASA/ESA/ESO/Judy Schmidt Some processing notes: The cores of the galaxies were saturated in the ESO image, so I airbrushed over them with an approximate color. The stars were blurred/averaged and then shrunk down with a "minimum" filter so I could get just their color without the huge halo. I did some color balancing, as well. It's not ideal. It still looks pretty good, though. Establishing HST's Low Redshift Archive of Interacting Systems Luminosity: ACS/WFC F606W Red: Melipal/VIMOS V (550 nm) Green: Melipal/VIMOS B (425 nm) Blue: Melipal/VIMOS U (380 nm) North is 1.37° counter-clockwise from up.
ARP156 by Judy Schmidt Via Flickr: Things have been rough for this galaxy. There are stellar streams strewn all about, the dust disk is warped all over the place, and there's hardly any star formation going on. That's what makes it so cool, though. I love the way the dust disk is pushed and pulled around, but still maintains semblance to a disk. BONUS: If you look down at the bottom, next to the two red stars, there's the cutest little hourglass nebula I've ever seen. I think it's a planetary nebula, anyway. It's either a planetary nebula that's fairly typical, or the weirdest galaxy I've ever seen. I'll defer to Occam's razor for this one. Edit: Some Galaxy Zoo people and Phil Plait are shooting holes in my idea that it's anything but a galaxy. Apparently there ARE galaxies that look exactly like this, such as NGC 2665. I'm just gonna redact that whole paragraph for now. Color from SDSS again. Data for that may be found here: dr12.sdss.org/fields/name?name=arp156 NASA/ESA/SDSS/Judy Schmidt Establishing HST's Low Redshift Archive of Interacting Systems Luminosity: ACS/WFC F606W Red: SDSS i Green: SDSS r Blue: SDSS g North is 37.73° clockwise from up.
