Super Star Clusters in Dust-Enshrouded Galaxy
esahubble_opo0626a June 13th, 2006
Credit: NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The sharp eye of the Hubble Space Telescope's Advanced Camera for Surveys has uncovered more than 200 mammoth star clusters in the heart of the galaxy Arp 220. The clusters are the bluish-white dots scattered throughout the image. The heftiest Arp 220 cluster - about 10 million solar masses - is twice as massive as any comparable star cluster in the Milky Way Galaxy. Arp 220 collided with another galaxy about 700 million years ago, fueling the frenzy of star birth in a small region about 5,000 light-years across. The galaxy is a nearby example of the aftermath of two colliding galaxies.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0626a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0626a
- Subject Category
- C.5.3.2.2
- Subject Name
- Arp 220, IC 4553
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2006-06-13T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0626a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- 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, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 555, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 233.739006315, 23.5029613135
- Reference Dimension
- 955.0, 692.0
- Reference Pixel
- 479.0, 347.0
- Scale
- -6.94147724037e-06, 6.94147724037e-06
- Rotation
- 67.659999999999982
- 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
- opo0626a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0626a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2006-06-08T11:17:36-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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