Freewheeling Galaxies Collide in a Blaze of Star Birth
esahubble_opo0314a May 1st, 2003
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
A dusty spiral galaxy appears to be rotating on edge, like a pinwheel, as it slides through the larger, bright galaxy NGC 1275, in this NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image. These images, taken with Hubble's Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2), show traces of spiral structure accompanied by dramatic dust lanes and bright blue regions that mark areas of active star formation.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0314a/
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
- opo0314a
- Subject Category
- C.5.3.2.2
- Subject Name
- Caldwell 24, NGC 1275, Perseus A
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2003-05-01T06:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0314a/
- 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
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, R, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 702, 450
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 49.9472973, 41.5168608
- Reference Dimension
- 1489.0, 2049.0
- Reference Pixel
- 745.5, 1025.5
- Scale
- 9.21121848399e-06, 9.22533042277e-06
- Rotation
- -129.3
- 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
- opo0314a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0314a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:23:24+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
