Galaxy Silhouettes
esahubble_opo0833a September 16th, 2008
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a rare alignment between two spiral galaxies. The outer rim of a small, foreground galaxy is silhouetted in front of a larger background galaxy. Skeletal tentacles of dust can be seen extending beyond the small galaxy's disk of starlight. From ground-based telescopes, the two galaxies look like a single blob. But the Advanced Camera's sharp "eye" distinguished the blob as two galaxies, cataloged as 2MASX J00482185-2507365. The images were taken on 19 September, 2006.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0833a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo0833a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- 2MASX J00482185-2507365, LEDA 198197
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2008-09-16T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0833a/
- 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, V
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 606, 475
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 12.0903981, -25.1274098
- Reference Dimension
- 975.0, 958.0
- Reference Pixel
- 488.5, 480.0
- Scale
- -1.35897e-05, 1.3589674e-05
- Rotation
- -0.49
- 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
- opo0833a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0833a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T11:12:16.094706
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
