I’m gonna be the grumpy old man here, but this is a marketing page. If there’s science going on here, it’s not even mentioned. Instead it’s all artist’s visualisations of infra-red data of an unusual galaxy. Is the galaxy of any scientific interest? I have no idea from the article whatsoever.
It's a pop sci article. It shows off advances in our imaging capabilities and hopefully inspires a little wonder about the universe. I believe the intended takeaway is something like "neat! We can see a lot of stuff going on in infrared that's hard to see in the visible spectrum". The rendering of other wavelengths as red, blue, and green pixels is a very standard scientific visualization method for multispectral imaging, and the article makes it clear what choices they make to do so.
I’m gonna be the grumpy old man here, but this is a marketing page. If there’s science going on here, it’s not even mentioned. Instead it’s all artist’s visualisations of infra-red data of an unusual galaxy. Is the galaxy of any scientific interest? I have no idea from the article whatsoever.
It's a pop sci article. It shows off advances in our imaging capabilities and hopefully inspires a little wonder about the universe. I believe the intended takeaway is something like "neat! We can see a lot of stuff going on in infrared that's hard to see in the visible spectrum". The rendering of other wavelengths as red, blue, and green pixels is a very standard scientific visualization method for multispectral imaging, and the article makes it clear what choices they make to do so.