Dwarf galaxy DDO 68
esahubble_heic1421a September 25th, 2014
Credit: NASA, ESA Acknowledgement: A. Aloisi (Space Telescope Science Institute)
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a cosmic oddity, dwarf galaxy DDO 68. This ragged collection of stars and gas clouds looks at first glance like a recently-formed galaxy in our own cosmic neighbourhood. But, is it really as young as it looks?
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1421a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1421a
- Subject Category
- C.5.2.2
- Subject Name
- DDO 68
- Credits
- NASA, ESA Acknowledgement: A. Aloisi (Space Telescope Science Institute)
- Release Date
- 2014-09-25T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1421a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Orange, Red
- Band
- Optical, Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- V, I, H-alpha
- Central Wavelength
- 606, 814, 658
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 149.189847351, 28.8210168605
- Reference Dimension
- 3869.0, 2184.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1934.0, 1092.0
- Scale
- -1.39254242913e-05, 1.39254242913e-05
- Rotation
- -104.93999999999994
- 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
- heic1421a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1421a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2012-12-04T10:14:06+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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