The impending destruction of NGC 1427A
esahubble_opo0509a March 3rd, 2005
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA )
What happens when a galaxy falls in with the wrong crowd? The irregular galaxy NGC 1427A is a spectacular example of the resulting stellar rumble. Under the gravitational grasp of a large gang of galaxies, called the Fornax cluster, the small bluish galaxy is plunging headlong into the group at 600 kilometers per second or nearly 400 miles per second.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0509a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0509a
- Subject Category
- C.3.2.1.2 C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- NGC 1427A
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team STScI/AURA )
- Release Date
- 2005-03-03T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0509a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, R, V
- Central Wavelength
- 775, 625, 475
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 55.0392258, -35.6215937
- Reference Dimension
- 3377.0, 3808.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1689.5, 1905.0
- Scale
- 1.388348031e-05, 1.38937850468e-05
- Rotation
- 115
- 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
- opo0509a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0509a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2005-02-21T10:39:34-05:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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