Hubble's newest camera takes a deep look at two merging galaxies
esahubble_heic0206b April 30th, 2002
Credit: NASA, Holland Ford (JHU), the ACS Science Team and ESA
Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the newest camera on NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, has captured a spectacular pair of galaxies engaged in a celestial dance of cat and mouse or, in this case, mouse and mouse. Located 300 million light-years away in the constellation Coma Berenices, the colliding galaxies have been nicknamed "The Mice" because of the long tails of stars and gas emanating from each galaxy. Otherwise known as NGC 4676, the pair will eventually merge into a single giant galaxy.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0206b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0206b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- Mice Galaxies, NGC 4676
- Credits
- NASA, Holland Ford (JHU), the ACS Science Team and ESA
- Release Date
- 2002-04-30T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0206b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 804, 606, 475
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 191.54334581, 30.727436513
- Reference Dimension
- 3857.0, 2893.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1928.5, 1446.5
- Scale
- -1.38810812467e-05, 1.38810812467e-05
- Rotation
- -64.560000000000016
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic0206b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0206b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:06:44+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
