Odd Couple Widely Separated by Time and Space
esahubble_opo0223a October 3rd, 2002
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Appearances can be deceiving. In this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image, an odd celestial duo, the spiral galaxy NGC 4319 [center] and a quasar called Markarian 205 [upper right], appear to be neighbors. In reality, the two objects don't even live in the same city. They are separated by time and space. NGC 4319 is 80 million light-years from Earth. Markarian 205 (Mrk 205) is more than 14 times farther away, residing 1 billion light-years from Earth. The apparent close alignment of Mrk 205 and NGC 4319 is simply a matter of chance.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0223a/
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
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- ID
- opo0223a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1 D.5.3.2.1
- Subject Name
- Mrk205, NGC 4319, QSO B1219+7535
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2002-10-03T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0223a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- No distance as the two objects are very far apart
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 555, 439
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 185.4489388, 75.3249024
- Reference Dimension
- 1078.0, 1072.0
- Reference Pixel
- 540.0, 537.0
- Scale
- 2.76655827772e-05, 2.76414353688e-05
- Rotation
- 120.2
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- WCS info from NASA/Hubble
- 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
- opo0223a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0223a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:21:42+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
