Javascript must be enabled to use AstroPix. Learn How!

Too Fast, Too Furious: A Galaxy's Fatal Plunge

Esahubble_opo0801b_1024

esahubble_opo0801b January 10th, 2008

Credit: NASA, D. Hines (Space Science Institute, New Mexico Office in Corrales, New Mexico), and G. Schneider (University of Arizona)

Circumstellar Disk HD 61005

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0801b/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

View Options

Fullscreen

Download Options

Full Size Image (736 x 848)
JPG (75.8 KB) Source File

Image Details

Image Type: Observation
Object Name: HD 61005
Subject - Milky Way: Star > Circumstellar Material > Disk

Color Mapping

	Telescope	Spectral Band	Wavelength
	Hubble (NICMOS)	Infrared (J)	1.1 µm

Spectrum_base

Red

Esahubble_opo0801b_1280

×

ID: opo0801b
Subject Category: B.3.7.2
Subject Name: HD 61005
Credits: NASA, D. Hines (Space Science Institute, New Mexico Office in Corrales, New Mexico), and G. Schneider (University of Arizona)

Release Date: 2008-01-10T17:30:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0801b/

Type: Observation
Image Quality
Distance Notes: Distance in light years from: http://www.aanda.org/index.php?option=com_article&access=standard&Itemid=129&url=/articles/aa/full_html/2011/05/aa16267-10/aa16267-10.html

Facility: Hubble Space Telescope
Instrument: NICMOS
Color Assignment: Red

Band: Infrared
Bandpass: J
Central Wavelength: 1100

Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes

Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension: 736.0, 848.0

Reference Pixel
Scale
Rotation
Coordinate System Projection:

Quality
FITS Header
Notes

Creator (Curator): ESA/Hubble
URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email

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: opo0801b

Resource URL: http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0801b.tif
Related Resources

Metadata Date: 2007-12-18T12:48:16-05:00
Metadata Version: 1.1

×

Detailed color mapping information coming soon...

×

There is no distance meta data in this image.

Providers | Sign In

Nasa_partner

NASA’s Universe of Learning materials are based upon work supported by NASA under cooperative agreement award number NNX16AC65A to the Space Telescope Science Institute, working in partnership with Caltech/IPAC, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, and NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. The award is part of NASA’s Science Activation program, which strives to further enable NASA science experts and content into the learning environment more effectively and efficiently with learners of all ages.