Hubble celebrates 19th anniversary with fountain of youth

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esahubble_heic0906a April 21st, 2009

Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)

This brilliant image, courtesy of NASA/ESA's Hubble Space Telescope, is a fitting 19th anniversary tribute to the workhorse space observatory. This interacting group contains several galaxies, along with a "cosmic fountain" of stars, gas and dust that stretches over 100 000 light-years. Resembling a pair of owl's eyes, the two nuclei of the colliding galaxies can be seen in the process of merging at the upper left. The bizarre blue bridge of material extending out from the northern component looks as if it connects to a third galaxy but in reality the galaxy is in the background and not connected at all. The blue "fountain" is the most striking feature of this galaxy troupe and it contains complexes of super star clusters that may have as many as dozens of individual young star clusters in them.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0906a/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Image Details

Image Type
Observation
Object Name
Arp 194
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Interacting
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Position Details

Position (ICRS)
RA = 11h 57m 55.5s
DEC = 36° 23’ 16.2”
Orientation
North is 35.2° CCW
Field of View
1.3 x 1.5 arcminutes
Constellation
Ursa Major

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
heic0906a
Subject Category
C.5.1.7  
Subject Name
Arp 194
Credits
NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Release Date
2009-04-21T15:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0906a/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes
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
179.4812109, 36.3878204
Reference Dimension
1270.0, 1522.0
Reference Pixel
636.0, 762.0
Scale
-1.66471e-05, 1.6647089e-05
Rotation
35.16
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
heic0906a
Metadata Date
2019-10-07T11:12:15.822495
Metadata Version
1.1
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