Ground-based view of the sky around the galaxy NGC 1052-DF2
esahubble_heic1806b March 28th, 2018
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin
This image shows the sky around the ultra diffuse galaxy NGC 1052-DF2. It was created from images forming part of the Digitized Sky Survey 2. NGC 1052-DF2 is basically invisible in this image. It is located to the southwest of the bright elliptical galaxy NGC 1052, which is dominating the field of view, and east of the bright red star HD 16873.
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1806b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1806b
- Subject Category
- C.5
- Subject Name
- NGC 1052-DF2
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble, NASA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 Acknowledgement: Davide de Martin
- Release Date
- 2018-03-28T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1806b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Instrument
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Bandpass
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- Equinox
- Reference Value
- Reference Dimension
- 11137.0, 8779.0
- 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
- heic1806b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1806b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-03-15T18:44:55+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
