Crash in progress
esahubble_heic1805a March 8th, 2018
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
Arp 256 is a stunning system of two spiral galaxies, about 350 million light-years away, in an early stage of merging. The image, taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, displays two galaxies with strongly distorted shapes and an astonishing number of blue knots of star formation that look like exploding fireworks. The star formation was triggered by the close interaction between the two galaxies. This image was taken by Hubbles Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3). It is a new version of an image already released in 2008 that was part a large collection of 59 images of merging galaxies taken for Hubbles 18th anniversary.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1805a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, None, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1805a
- Subject Category
- D.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- Arp 256
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble, NASA
- Release Date
- 2018-03-08T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1805a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Red, Green, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- SII, I, I, B, B
- Central Wavelength
- 673, 814, 814, 435, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 4.70968870469, -10.3675861394
- Reference Dimension
- 3343.0, 3249.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1671.0, 1624.0
- Scale
- -1.38952084745e-05, 1.38952084745e-05
- Rotation
- 29.96
- 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
- None
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1805a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1805a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-02-25T16:33:48+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
