Galaxy C153 in Cluster Abell 2125 (Composite)
esahubble_opo0402b January 6th, 2004
Credit: NASA/ESA, W. Keel (U Alabama), F. Owen (NRAO), M. Ledlow (Gemini Obs.), and D. Wang (U Mass.)
Trailing 200,000-light-year-long streamers of seething gas, a galaxy that was once like our Milky Way is being shredded as it plunges at 4.5 million miles per hour through the heart of a distant cluster of galaxies. In this unusually violent collision with ambient cluster gas, the galaxy is stripped down to its skeletal spiral arms as it is eviscerated of fresh hydrogen for making new stars.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0402b/
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
- opo0402b
- Subject Category
- D.5.1.7 D.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- Abell 2125, C153
- Credits
- NASA/ESA, W. Keel (U Alabama), F. Owen (NRAO), M. Ledlow (Gemini Obs.), and D. Wang (U Mass.)
- Release Date
- 2004-01-06T15:30:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0402b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Redshift distance from NED
- Facility
- Very Large Array (VLA), Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Other, Chandra
- Instrument
- None, WFPC2, WFPC2, None, ACIS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Yellow, Yellow, Green, Purple
- Band
- Radio, Infrared, Optical, Optical, X-ray
- Bandpass
- -, I, V, OII, Soft X-ray
- Central Wavelength
- 3.546, 606, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 235.2906999, 66.2627094
- Reference Dimension
- 680.0, 614.0
- Reference Pixel
- 341.0, 308.0
- Scale
- -1.37243930237e-05, 1.37684336757e-05
- Rotation
- -4.7
- 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
- opo0402b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0402b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-03T14:49:41-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
