Hubble views NGC 4402
esahubble_heic0911c September 30th, 2009
Credit: NASA & ESA
The image of NGC 4402 highlights some telltale signs of ram pressure stripping such as the curved, or convex, appearance of the disc of gas and dust, a result of the forces exerted by the heated gas. Light being emitted by the disc backlights the swirling dust that is being swept out by the gas. Studying ram pressure stripping helps astronomers better understand the mechanisms that drive the evolution of galaxies, and how the rate of star formation is suppressed in very dense regions of the Universe like clusters.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0911c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0911c
- Subject Category
- B.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 4402
- Credits
- NASA & ESA
- Release Date
- 2009-09-30T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0911c/
- 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, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 505, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 186.531580801, 13.114537569
- Reference Dimension
- 3427.0, 3427.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1713.0, 1713.0
- Scale
- -1.38591907991e-05, 1.38591907991e-05
- Rotation
- -15.119999999999994
- 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
- heic0911c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0911c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-09-22T19:05:52+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
