Hubble-Magellan Composite of M83

About the colours

This image is a composite of separate exposures acquired by the WFC3 instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope. Several filters were used to sample broad and narrow wavelength ranges. The color results from assigning different hues (colors) to each monochromatic (grayscale) image associated with an individual filter. In this case, the assigned colors are: Purple: F336W (U) Blue: F438W (B) Green: F555W (V) + F547M (Strömgren y) Orange: F657N (H-alpha) Red: F814W (I)

About the data

The image was created from Hubble data from proposal 11360 : R. O'Connell (University of Virginia), B. Balick (University of Washington), H. Bond (STScI), D. Calzetti (University of Massachusetts), M. Carollo (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich), M. Disney (University of Wales, College of Cardiff), M. Dopita (Australian National University), J. Frogel (Ohio State University Research Foundation), D. Hall (University of Hawaii), J. Holtzman (New Mexico State University), P. McCarthy (Carnegie Institution of Washington), F. Paresce (European Southern Observatory, Germany), A. Saha (NOAO/AURA), J. Silk (University of Oxford), A. Walker (NOAO/CTIO), B. Whitmore (STScI), R. Windhorst (Arizona State University), and E. Young (University of Arizona); and 12483: W. Blair (JHU), K. Long (STScI), F. Winkler (Middlebury College), R. Soria (Curtin University), B. Whitmore (STScI), R. Chandar (University of Toledo), P. Ghavamian (Towson University), M. Dopita (Australian National University), and B. Rangelov (George Washington University).