A Minuet of Galaxies
esahubble_opo9931a September 2nd, 1999
Credit: The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA/ESA)
This troupe of four galaxies, known as Hickson Compact Group 87 (HCG 87), is performing an intricate dance orchestrated by the mutual gravitational forces acting between them. The dance is a slow, graceful minuet, occurring over a time span of hundreds of millions of years.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/opo9931a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- opo9931a
- Subject Category
- C.5.5.3
- Subject Name
- HCG 87, Hickson Compact Group 87
- Credits
- The Hubble Heritage Team (AURA/STScI/NASA/ESA)
- Release Date
- 1999-09-02T18:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/opo9931a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from NED
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Orange, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- B, V, R, I
- Central Wavelength
- 450, 555, 675, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None, None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 312.050478714, -19.8430184389
- Reference Dimension
- 1500.0, 1470.0
- Reference Pixel
- 750.0, 735.0
- Scale
- -2.76276177804e-05, 2.76276177804e-05
- Rotation
- 45.659999999999926
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- United States
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo9931a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/opo9931a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:54:49+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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