Colliding galaxies make love, not war
esahubble_heic0615a October 17th, 2006
Credit: Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgement: B. Whitmore ( Space Telescope Science Institute) and James Long (ESA/Hubble).
This Hubble image of the Antennae galaxies is the sharpest yet of this merging pair of galaxies. As the two galaxies smash together, billions of stars are born, mostly in groups and clusters of stars. The brightest and most compact of these are called super star clusters.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0615a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
View Options
Download Options
Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- heic0615a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- Antennae Galaxies, NGC4038, NGC4039
- Credits
- Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)-ESA/Hubble Collaboration. Acknowledgement: B. Whitmore ( Space Telescope Science Institute) and James Long (ESA/Hubble).
- Release Date
- 2006-10-17T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic0615a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Magenta, Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Infrared, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha + Nii, I, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 658, 814, 550, 435
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 180.470327069, -18.8804907083
- Reference Dimension
- 3915.0, 3885.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1957.5, 1942.5
- Scale
- -1.39317732232e-05, 1.39317732232e-05
- Rotation
- -30.619999999999976
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- 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
- heic0615a
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic0615a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2006-10-10T11:35:46+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.0
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
