Back Spin Galaxy
esahubble_opo0203a February 7th, 2002
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Astronomers have found a spiral galaxy that may be spinning to the beat of a different cosmic drummer. To the surprise of astronomers, the galaxy, called NGC 4622, appears to be rotating in the opposite direction to what they expected. Pictures from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope helped astronomers determine that the galaxy may be spinning clockwise by showing which side of the galaxy is closer to Earth. This Hubble telescope photo of the oddball galaxy is presented by the Hubble Heritage team. The image shows NGC 4622 and its outer pair of winding arms full of new stars [shown in blue].
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0203a/
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
- opo0203a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 4622
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2002-02-07T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0203a/
- 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, Optical, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- I, V, B, U
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 555, 439, 336
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 190.656250216, -40.7447261765
- Reference Dimension
- 853.0, 970.0
- Reference Pixel
- 426.5, 485.0
- Scale
- -2.7677316699e-05, 2.7677316699e-05
- Rotation
- -29.6
- 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
- opo0203a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0203a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:19:10+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
