ESO 148-2

Esahubble_heic0810bh_1024

esahubble_heic0810bh April 24th, 2008

Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)

ESO 148-2 is a beautiful object that resembles an owl in flight. It consists of a pair of former disc galaxies undergoing a collision. The cores of the two individual galaxies - seen at the centre of the image - are embedded in hot dust and contain a large number of stars. Two huge "wings" sweep out from the centre and curve in opposite directions. These are tidal tails of stars and gas that have been pulled from the easily distorted discs of the galaxies. This "cosmic owl" is one of the most luminous infrared galaxies known and is located some 600 million light-years away from Earth. This image is part of a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken by the Hubble Space Telescope and released on the occasion of its 18th anniversary on 24th April 2008.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0810bh/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
ESO 148-2
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Interacting
Esahubble_heic0810bh_128
 

Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 23h 15m 47.1s
DEC = -59° 3’ 8.6”
Orientation
North is 165.5° CCW
Field of View
2.0 x 2.0 arcminutes
Constellation
Tucana

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (ACS) Infrared (I) -
Green Hubble (ACS) Optical (Pseudogreen (B+I)) -
Blue Hubble (ACS) Optical (B) -
Esahubble_heic0810bh_1280
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ID
heic0810bh
Subject Category
C.5.1.7  
Subject Name
ESO 148-2
Credits
NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration and A. Evans (University of Virginia, Charlottesville/NRAO/Stony Brook University)
Release Date
2008-04-24T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0810bh/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
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, Pseudogreen (B+I), B
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
348.9464528, -59.052395
Reference Dimension
2433.0, 2433.0
Reference Pixel
1217.5, 1217.5
Scale
-1.39185e-05, 1.3918465e-05
Rotation
165.52
Coordinate System Projection:
TAN
Quality
Full
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
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
heic0810bh
Metadata Date
2008-03-28T09:44:36+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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