Hubble image of the Meathook Galaxy
esahubble_heic1108a May 4th, 2011
Credit: NASA, ESA
This close-up Hubble view of the Meathook Galaxy (NGC 2442) focuses on the more compact of its two asymmetric spiral arms as well as the central regions. The spiral arm was the location of a supernova that exploded in 1999. These Hubble observations were made in 2006 in order to study the aftermath of this supernova. Ground-based data from MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope were used to fill out parts of the edges of this image.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1108a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1108a
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.8 C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 2442, SN 1999ga
- Credits
- NASA, ESA
- Release Date
- 2011-05-04T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1108a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, WFPC2, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Orange, Green, Blue, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Infrared, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, I, Pseudogreen (B+I), B, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 114.088871898, -69.5455843988
- Reference Dimension
- 2856.0, 3951.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1428.0, 1975.5
- Scale
- -1.38988817975e-05, 1.38988817975e-05
- Rotation
- -184.76000000000002
- 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
- heic1108a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1108a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-04-28T11:27:01+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
