Galaxy AM 1054-325
stsci_2024-004a February 8th, 2024
Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Jayanne English (University of Manitoba)
Galaxy AM 1054-325 has been distorted into an S-shape from a normal pancake-like spiral shape by the gravitational pull of a neighboring galaxy, seen in this Hubble Space Telescope image. A consequence of this is that newborn clusters of stars form along a stretched-out tidal tail for thousands of light-years, resembling a string of pearls. They form when knots of gas gravitationally collapse to create about 1 million newborn stars per cluster.
Provider: Space Telescope Science Institute
Image Source: https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-004
Curator: STScI, Baltimore, MD, USA
Image Use Policy: http://stsci.edu/copyright/
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- ID
- 2024-004a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- AM 1054-325
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, STScI, Jayanne English (University of Manitoba)
- Release Date
- 2024-02-08
- Lightyears
- 173,000,000
- Redshift
- 173,000,000
- Reference Url
- https://hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2024/news-2024-004
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- distance in lightyears
- Facility
- Hubble, Hubble, Hubble, Hubble
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Magenta, Cyan, Green, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- U, B, V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 336, 435, 606, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- 2000.0
- Reference Value
- 164.24458725194, -33.15403260250
- Reference Dimension
- 3260.00, 3210.00
- Reference Pixel
- 891.75240865550, 621.66495785748
- Scale
- -0.00000520015, 0.00000520015
- Rotation
- 134.92350191701
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- World Coordinate System resolved using PinpointWCS 0.9.2 revision 218+ by the Chandra X-ray Center
- Creator (Curator)
- STScI
- URL
- http://stsci.edu
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- Address
- 3700 San Martin Drive
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- USA
- Rights
- http://stsci.edu/copyright/
- Publisher
- STScI
- Publisher ID
- stsci
- Resource ID
- STSCI-H-p24004a-f-3260x3210.tif
- Resource URL
- https://mast.stsci.edu/api/latest/Download/file?uri=mast:OPO/product/STSCI_PR_2024-004/STSCI-H-p24004a-f-3260x3210.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2024-03-11T10:39:43-04:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.2
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
