Hubble view of NGC 3314
esahubble_heic1208a June 14th, 2012
Credit: NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and W. Keel (University of Alabama)
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an incredibly detailed image of a pair of overlapping galaxies called NGC 3314. While the two galaxies look as if they are in the midst of a collision, this is in fact a trick of perspective: the two are in chance alignment from our vantage point.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1208a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1208a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 3314, NGC 3314A, NGC 3314B
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, the Hubble Heritage (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration, and W. Keel (University of Alabama)
- Release Date
- 2012-06-14T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1208a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Old (1988) value from NED for NGC 3314 as a whole. No values for NGC 3314A or B individually
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Pseudocolor, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- V, B+V, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 159.302454015, -27.6701529592
- Reference Dimension
- 3276.0, 2928.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1670.3155115, 2426.55820088
- Scale
- -1.389517e-05, 1.389517e-05
- Rotation
- 0.02511150928
- 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
- heic1208a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1208a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-06-11T14:26:58+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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