Hubble looks at sideways NGC 4710 (full)
esahubble_heic0914b November 18th, 2009
Credit: NASA & ESA
Still an astrophysical mystery, the evolution of the bulges in spiral galaxies led astronomers to the edge-on galaxy NGC 4710. When staring directly at the centre of the galaxy, one can detect a faint, ethereal "X'-shaped structure. Such a feature, which astronomers call a "boxy" or "peanut-shaped" bulge, is due to the vertical motions of the stars in the galaxy's bar and is only evident when the galaxy is seen edge-on. This curiously shaped puff is often observed in spiral galaxies with small bulges and open arms, but is less common in spirals with arms tightly wrapped around a more prominent bulge, such as NGC 4710.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0914b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic0914b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1 C.5.4.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 4710
- Credits
- NASA & ESA
- Release Date
- 2009-11-18T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0914b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- B, Pseudogreen (B+I), I
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 192.406973726, 15.1722388719
- Reference Dimension
- 3936.0, 2025.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1968.0, 1012.5
- Scale
- -1.38307908829e-05, 1.38307908829e-05
- Rotation
- 70.360000000000014
- 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
- heic0914b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0914b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2009-11-04T16:41:06+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
