The area around ESO 381-12 (ground-based image)

esahubble_heic1516b July 9th, 2015

Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)

This image from the Digitized Sky Survey shows the area around galaxy ESO 381-12. The strikingly uneven structure and the clusters of stars that orbit around the galaxy suggest that ESO 381-12 may have been part of a dramatic collision sometime in its relatively recent past.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1516b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei M√ºnchen, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type: Observation
Object Name: ESO 381-12 • PGC 42871
Subject - Local Universe: Galaxy > Type > Lenticular

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Position (ICRS): RA = 12h 44m 5.2s; DEC = -34° 12’ 7.3”
Orientation: North is 1.0° CW
Field of View: 3.0 x 3.0 degrees
Constellation: Centaurus

ID: heic1516b
Subject Category: C.5.1.3
Subject Name: ESO 381-12, PGC 42871
Credits: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)

Release Date: 2015-07-09T15:00:00
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Reference Url: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1516b/

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Coordinate Frame: ICRS
Equinox: J2000
Reference Value: 191.021530331, -34.2020156849
Reference Dimension: 10517.0, 10509.0

Reference Pixel: 5258.5, 5254.5
Scale: -0.000283374161817, 0.000283374161817
Rotation: -0.96000000000000019
Coordinate System Projection:: TAN

Quality: Full
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Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
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Address: Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
City: Garching bei M√ºnchen
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Postal Code: D-85748
Country: Germany
Rights: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Publisher: ESA/Hubble
Publisher ID: esahubble
Resource ID: heic1516b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1516b.tif
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Metadata Date: 2014-12-03T17:20:03+01:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

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