IRAS 18090+0130
esahubble_heic0810bx 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)
This system consists of two interacting spiral galaxies. The galaxy to the left displays a dim plume of luminosity that extends to the right in the direction of the second spiral. Both galaxies are partly obscured by dust lanes. The galaxy at centre is adorned with blue knots of stars. IRAS 18090+0130 is located in the constellation of Ophiuchus, the Serpent Holder, some 400 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/heic0810bx/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0810bx
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- IRAS 18090+0130
- 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/heic0810bx/
- 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
- 814, Pseudogreen (B+I), B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 272.9015714, 1.531241
- Reference Dimension
- 2781.0, 2781.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1391.5, 1391.5
- Scale
- -1.38836292191e-05, 1.38836292191e-05
- Rotation
- -176.13999999999976
- 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
- heic0810bx
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0810bx.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2008-04-21T13:03:05+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
