Quasar IRAS 13218+0552
esahubble_opo9635a6 November 19th, 1996
Credit: John Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Mike Disney (University of Wales) and NASA/ESA
Hubble has captured evidence of a dance between two merging galaxies. The galaxies may have orbited each other several times before merging, leaving distinct loops of glowing gas around quasar IRAS13218+0552. The quasar is 2 billion light-years from Earth. The elongated core in the center of the image may comprise the two nuclei of the merging galaxies.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9635a6/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo9635a6
- Subject Category
- D.5.3.2.1
- Subject Name
- IRAS 13218+0552, QSO B1321+058
- Credits
- John Bahcall (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton) Mike Disney (University of Wales) and NASA/ESA
- Release Date
- 1996-11-19T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9635a6/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Redshift distance from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Red
- Band
- Optical
- Bandpass
- V
- Central Wavelength
- 606
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 208.0, 208.0
- Reference Pixel
- Scale
- Rotation
- Coordinate System Projection:
- Quality
- 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
- opo9635a6
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9635a6.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:47:22+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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