Galaxies · Galaxy group or cluster · compact galaxy group
A visual grouping of five galaxies, four of them interacting. Explore its views, where their colours came from, and palettes you can use.
Featured palette: Webb near- and mid-infrared view, 2022 (Sampled from this image)
#423639#0E0C0B#1F1A1C#3E343B#665560#9D8084#DABBB5
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI. · released 12 July 2022
About Stephan’s Quintet
A visual grouping of five galaxies, four of them interacting.
| Classification | Galaxy group or cluster (compact galaxy group) |
|---|---|
| Identifiers | HCG 92 |
| Observed light (this view) | 1.5 μm (shown as blue), 900 nm (shown as blue), 2.0 μm (shown as green), 7.7 μm (shown as yellow), 2.77 μm (shown as yellow), 10 μm (shown as orange), 4.44 μm (shown as red), 3.56 μm (shown as red) |
Why these colours?
Webb near- and mid-infrared view, 2022
Infrared light; colours assigned by the Webb team. Filters listed by the publisher: 1.5 μm (shown as blue) (1.5 µm), 900 nm (shown as blue) (900 nm), 2.0 μm (shown as green) (2 µm), 7.7 μm (shown as yellow) (7.7 µm), 2.77 μm (shown as yellow) (2.77 µm), 10 μm (shown as orange) (10 µm), 4.44 μm (shown as red) (4.44 µm), 3.56 μm (shown as red) (3.56 µm).
From: Webb near- and mid-infrared view, 2022 Mapped non-visible data
Colour clusters describe pixels in an image; they cannot identify a mineral, a gas or a physical temperature. Shares of pixels describe the sampled region of the image, not the object’s surface.
Colours from selected views
Palettes sampled from identified images and regions, or calculated from a documented model. These values describe each image or model, not one permanent colour of Stephan’s Quintet.
Webb near- and mid-infrared view, 2022
Sampled from this image · Webb near- and mid-infrared view, 2022
#423639RGB 66, 54, 57region average#0E0C0BRGB 14, 12, 1170% of the region#1F1A1CRGB 31, 26, 2812% of the region#3E343BRGB 62, 52, 597% of the region#665560RGB 102, 85, 965% of the region#9D8084RGB 157, 128, 1323% of the region#DABBB5RGB 218, 187, 1812% of the region
See where these colours came from
Creative palettes inspired by Stephan’s Quintet
A design derived from the selected representation. It is not a scientific colour measurement. Each colour keeps the sampled colour it was made from.
Inspired by Stephan’s Quintet
Inspired by this object
#302D2CRGB 48, 45, 44from #0E0C0B#534D4FRGB 83, 77, 79from #1F1A1C#7A6E76RGB 122, 110, 118from #3E343B#A4919DRGB 164, 145, 157from #665560#D5B6BARGB 213, 182, 186from #9D8084#FEE0DARGB 254, 224, 218from #DABBB5
Colours of the first view of Stephan’s Quintet with their lightness spread evenly, for a design palette.
Explore the views
Pick a colour from the image. Click or tap the picture to read a colour. Picked colours are yours, not catalogue samples.
No supported 3D model is available for this view. You can still inspect the source imagery and palette.
Use these colours
Every palette above opens in the palette generator. With JavaScript you can also add colours to your cosmic palette, save them, make a gradient or pattern, preview them in a design or a room (you choose which colour goes on which surface), check digital accessibility and export them. Each colour keeps the view and sample it came from.
Paint matches compare digital swatches for design inspiration. They are not physical equivalents of light from space. Edits create a new design palette. The original representation remains unchanged.
Sources
- Hubble FAQs — image processing and colour — NASA
- Galaxies — NASA
- Stephan’s Quintet (NIRCam + MIRI Imaging) — ESA/Webb
Image credits
- Webb near- and mid-infrared view, 2022: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI. CC BY 4.0. Resized for the web from the publisher’s file (sha256 ad65dd9ece1297a211b62142d416b9bde75fd45e101151dc0849c2e730898a6e).
Images were resized once for the web; colours were measured from the published files (k-means in OKLab, pcke-oklab-kmeans-1); calculated colours use the CIE 1931 2° observer. Facts last reviewed 25 October 2026. Catalogue pcke-cosmos-2026-10-25, page revision 7c5f56d51c03. No ESA, ESO or NASA endorsement is implied.