NGC 4993 seen with Hubble
esahubble_heic1717c October 16th, 2017
Credit: NASA and ESA
The lenticular galaxy NGC 4993 is located about 130 million light-years from Earth. On 17 August 2017 the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo Interferometer both detected gravitational waves from the collision of two neutron stars within this galaxy. The event also resulted in a flare of light, called a kilonova, which is visible to the upper left of the galactic centre in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1717c/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- heic1717c
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.4
- Subject Name
- NGC 4993
- Credits
- NASA and ESA
- Release Date
- 2017-10-16T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1717c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Infrared, Infrared, Optical
- Bandpass
- H, J, V
- Central Wavelength
- 1600, 1100, 606
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 197.448722955, -23.384024137
- Reference Dimension
- 1365.0, 1458.0
- Reference Pixel
- 682.5, 729.0
- Scale
- -1.9419532785e-05, 1.9419532785e-05
- Rotation
- 22.200000000000028
- 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
- heic1717c
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1717c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2017-10-10T13:32:54+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
