Wide-field view of the Meathook Galaxy
esahubble_heic1108b May 4th, 2011
Credit: ESO
This picture of the Meathook Galaxy (NGC 2442) was taken by the Wide Field Imager on the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at La Silla, Chile. It shows a much broader view than the Hubble image, although less detailed. This view includes the whole galaxy and the surrounding sky, and clearly shows the asymmetric spiral arms. The longer of the two arms has intense star formation, which is visible here as a pink glow: this is due to the radiation of young stars ionising the gas they form from. The asymmetric shape and star formation are both thought to be caused by tidal disruptions from a near-miss with another galaxy at some point in its history
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1108b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1108b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 2442
- Credits
- ESO
- Release Date
- 2011-05-04T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1108b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope, MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope
- Instrument
- WFI, WFI, WFI, WFI
- Color Assignment
- Blue, Green, Orange, Red
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- B, Pseudogreen, V, H-alpha
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 114.031910719, -69.5415291774
- Reference Dimension
- 6756.0, 5687.0
- Reference Pixel
- 3378.0, 2843.5
- Scale
- -6.61026895897e-05, 6.61026895897e-05
- Rotation
- 180.00000000000037
- 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
- heic1108b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1108b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2011-04-28T20:25:21+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
