Starburst galaxy NGC 1808

Esahubble_opo9812d_1024

esahubble_opo9812d March 22nd, 1998

Credit: Jim Flood, an amateur astronomer affiliated with Sperry Observatory at Union College in New Jersey, and Max Mutchler, a member of the Space Telescope Science Institute staff who volunteered to work with Jim

The ground-based image shows that the galaxy has an unusual, warped shape. Most spiral galaxies are flat disks, but this one has curls of dust and gas at its outer spiral arms (upper right-hand corner and lower left-hand corner). This peculiar shape is evidence that NGC 1808 may have had a close interaction with another nearby galaxy, NGC 1792, which is not in the picture Such an interaction could have hurled gas towards the nucleus of NGC 1808, triggering the exceptionally high rate of star birth seen in the WFPC2 inset image.

Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA

Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9812d/

Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany

Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

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Image Type
Observation
Object Name
IRAS 05059-3734 NGC 1808
Subject - Local Universe
Galaxy > Activity > Starburst
Esahubble_opo9812d_1280
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ID
opo9812d
Subject Category
C.5.3.3  
Subject Name
IRAS 05059-3734, NGC 1808
Credits
Jim Flood, an amateur astronomer affiliated with Sperry Observatory at Union College in New Jersey, and Max Mutchler, a member of the Space Telescope Science Institute staff who volunteered to work with Jim
Release Date
1998-03-22T06:00:00
Lightyears
Redshift
Reference Url
https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9812d/
Type
Observation
Image Quality
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Facility
Instrument
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Bandpass
Central Wavelength
Start Time
Integration Time
Dataset ID
Notes
Coordinate Frame
Equinox
Reference Value
Reference Dimension
530.0, 530.0
Reference Pixel
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Rotation
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Quality
FITS Header
Notes
Creator (Curator)
ESA/Hubble
URL
http://www.spacetelescope.org/
Name
Email
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
opo9812d
Metadata Date
2003-12-09T17:50:43+01:00
Metadata Version
1.1
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