Hubble scores a perfect ten

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esahubble_heic0820a October 30th, 2008

Credit: NASA, ESA and M. Livio (STScI)

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is back in business. Just a couple of days after the orbiting observatory was brought back online, Hubble aimed its prime working camera, the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), at a particularly intriguing target, a pair of gravitationally interacting galaxies called Arp 147. The two galaxies happen to be oriented so that they appear to mark the number 10. The left-most galaxy, or the "one" in this image, is relatively undisturbed, apart from a smooth ring of starlight. It appears nearly edge-on to our line of sight. The right-most galaxy, the "zero" of the pair, exhibits a clumpy, blue ring of intense star formation.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0820a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Arp 147
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Interacting
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 3h 11m 19.1s
DEC = 1° 18’ 50.7”
Orientation
North is 5.6° CCW
Field of View
1.2 x 1.0 arcminutes
Constellation
Cetus

Color Mapping

  Telescope Spectral Band Wavelength
Red Hubble (WFPC2) Infrared (I) 814.0 nm
Green Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (V) 606.0 nm
Blue Hubble (WFPC2) Optical (B) 450.0 nm
Spectrum_base
Red
Green
Blue
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ID
heic0820a
Subject Category
C.5.1.7  
Subject Name
Arp 147
Credits
NASA, ESA and M. Livio (STScI)
Release Date
2008-10-30T14:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0820a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
Distance in light years from NED
Facility
Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument
WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
Color Assignment
Red, Green, Blue
Band
Infrared, Optical, Optical
Bandpass
I, V, B
Central Wavelength
814, 606, 450
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
ICRS
Equinox
J2000
Reference Value
47.8293931, 1.314091
Reference Dimension
1457.0, 1201.0
Reference Pixel
729.5, 601.5
Scale
-1.39299e-05, 1.392989e-05
Rotation
5.58
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
heic0820a
Metadata Date
2019-10-07T11:40:33.720355
Metadata Version
1.1
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