aesthetics & astronomy

you can help out with a ~15 minute survey and see some interesting astronomy images at http://astroart.cfa.harvard.edu/.


this is an image they share of the whirlpool galaxy (M51), as seen thru the lenses of many different space telescopes. looks like they've combined images from most of NASA's great obseratories: x-ray from chandra, infrared from spitzer, optical from hubble, and maybe ultraviolet from GALEX (but i'm not sure about the UV).