GALEX ultraviolet image of the interacting galaxies M81 and M82
esahubble_heic0801b January 8th, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. de Mello (Catholic University of America/GSFC) & NASA/GALEX
A GALEX ultraviolet image of the interacting galaxies M81 and M82, which lie 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The gravity from each galaxy dramatically affected the other during their last close encounter, 200 million years ago. Gas density waves rippling around M81 make it a grand design spiral. M82 is undergoing a starburst at its core, creating glowing fingers of hydrogen.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0801b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- heic0801b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- Holmberg IX, M81, M82
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and D. de Mello (Catholic University of America/GSFC) & NASA/GALEX
- Release Date
- 2008-01-08T20:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0801b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- GALEX
- Instrument
- None
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 149.096940842, 69.319507349
- Reference Dimension
- 1362.0, 2409.0
- Reference Pixel
- 681.0, 1204.5
- Scale
- -0.000417055258098, 0.000417055258098
- Rotation
- -11.660000000000004
- 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
- heic0801b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0801b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-10-07T20:57:15.748052
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
