NGC 5426/5427

Esahubble_opo9734o_1024

esahubble_opo9734o October 21st, 1997

Credit: Vera Rubin (CIW/DTM)

NGC 5426 and NGC 5427 are a pair of similarly sized interacting spiral galaxies, together also known as Arp 271, 120 million light years away. It is not certain if this interaction they undergo will end in a collision and ultimately in a merging of the two galaxies or if the galaxies will experience just a very close encounter. It is definitly sure that the galaxies are already effecting each other as material was ripped off the galaxies to create a brigde of stars and dust connecting them. Our Milky Way will undergo a similar collision in the far future with the neighbouring Andromeda galaxy, which is now located about 2.6 million light years away from the Milky Way.

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Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9734o/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
IRAS 14008-0547 • NGC 5426 • NGC 5427
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Type > Interacting
Esahubble_opo9734o_1280
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ID
opo9734o
Subject Category
C.5.1.7  
Subject Name
IRAS 14008-0547, NGC 5426, NGC 5427
Credits
Vera Rubin (CIW/DTM)
Release Date
1997-10-21T19:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9734o/
Type
Observation
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Bandpass
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Integration Time
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Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
350.0, 268.0
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Rotation
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Quality
FITS Header
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Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
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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
opo9734o
Resource URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo9734o.jpg
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Metadata Date
2019-10-07T11:41:46.767241
Metadata Version
1.1
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