Baby Boom in Galaxy NGC 3310
esahubble_opo0126a September 6th, 2001
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Most galaxies form new stars at a fairly slow rate, but members of a rare class known as 'starburst' galaxies blaze with extremely active star formation. The galaxy NGC 3310 is one such starburst galaxy that is forming clusters of new stars at a prodigious rate. Scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are perfecting a technique to determine the history of starburst activity in NGC 3310 by studying the colours of its star clusters.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0126a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo0126a
- Subject Category
- C.5.3.3
- Subject Name
- IRAS 10356+5345, NGC 3310
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2001-09-06T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0126a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Ultraviolet, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- I, B, U, U
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 439, 336, 330
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 159.690586584, 53.5041840235
- Reference Dimension
- 849.0, 933.0
- Reference Pixel
- 424.5, 466.5
- Scale
- -2.76034302355e-05, 2.76034302355e-05
- Rotation
- 150.53999999999991
- 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
- opo0126a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0126a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:18:21+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
