Astronomers Discover Nearby Spiral Galaxy Hidden Behind the Milky Way
esahubble_opo9451a November 4th, 1994
Credit: Dwingeloo Obscured Galaxy Survey team, S. Hughes, & S. Maddox/Isaac Newton telescope (RGO)
This visual light image of a newly discovered galaxy called "Dwingeloo 1," was taken with the Isaac Newton Telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands (Administered by the Royal Greenwich Observatory, United Kingdom). Though only ten million light-years away (or five times the distance of the Andromeda galaxy - closest city of stars to our Milky Way Galaxy), this newly discovered collection of more than 100 billion stars has gone undetected previously because it is hidden from view behind our Milky Way galaxy. It probably belongs to a nearby group of galaxies that include two named Maffei 1 and 2.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9451a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9451a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1 C.5.1.2
- Subject Name
- Dwingeloo 1
- Credits
- Dwingeloo Obscured Galaxy Survey team, S. Hughes, & S. Maddox/Isaac Newton telescope (RGO)
- Release Date
- 1994-11-04T00:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9451a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Other, Other, Other
- Instrument
- None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- I, R, V
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 44.2052783135, 58.9199173135
- Reference Dimension
- 474.0, 600.0
- Reference Pixel
- 237.0, 300.0
- Scale
- -0.000242733716659, 0.000242733716659
- Rotation
- 0.48000000000001131
- 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
- opo9451a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9451a.jpg
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- Metadata Date
- 2019-10-07T11:41:33.569209
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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