Galaxy playing twister
esahubble_opo0123a August 2nd, 2001
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The Hubble telescope has captured an image of an unusual edge-on galaxy, revealing remarkable details of its warped dusty disk and showing how colliding galaxies spawn the formation of new generations of stars. The dust and spiral arms of normal spiral galaxies, like our own Milky Way, appear flat when viewed edge-on. This Hubble Heritage image of ESO 510-G13 shows a galaxy that, by contrast, has an unusual twisted disk structure, first seen in ground-based photographs.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0123a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- opo0123a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- ESO 510-G13, IRAS 13522-2632
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2001-08-02T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0123a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- R, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 675, 555, 450
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 208.767302911, -26.7811209401
- Reference Dimension
- 1435.0, 732.0
- Reference Pixel
- 718.5, 367.0
- Scale
- -2.767913814e-05, 2.767913814e-05
- Rotation
- -34.319999999999887
- 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
- opo0123a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0123a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:18:18+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
