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Transcription: We are here at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Maryland where the Hubble data gets processed. So Max, you're the first stop in Hubble data. So tell us, can you show us what's happening with ARP274? You know, for an object like this, people might be surprised to know that we actually take, in this case, 16 separate images which will eventually be combined into one color image at the end. And so it does take a little bit of work to clean up the images And the telescope also takes images just with one filter at a time. So to make a color image we have to combine images from di ...