The surroundings of the interacting galaxy NGC 5291
eso_eso1547a December 9th, 2015
Credit: ESO
The spectacular aftermath of a 360 million year old cosmic collision is revealed in great detail in this image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory. Among the debris surrounding the elliptical galaxy NGC 5291 at the centre is a rare and mysterious young dwarf galaxy, which appears as a bright clump towards the right of the image. This object is providing astronomers with an excellent opportunity to learn more about similar galaxies that are expected to be common in the early Universe, but are normally too faint and distant to be observed by current telescopes.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1547a/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1547a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- NGC 5291
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2015-12-09T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1547a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS2, FORS2, FORS2
- 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
- 206.830832611, -30.4012512371
- Reference Dimension
- 3010.0, 2086.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1505.0, 1043.0
- Scale
- -7.00210136628e-05, 7.00210136628e-05
- Rotation
- -90.000000000000142
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso1547a
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1547a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2015-11-26T14:42:57+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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