Pockets of star formation in DDO 68
esahubble_heic1810d May 17th, 2018
Credit: NASA, ESA, and the LEGUS team
The dwarf galaxy DDO 68, also known as UGC 5340, lies about 40 million light-years away from Earth. Due to its proximity it became one of the 50 targets of LEGUS. In UGC 5340, a pocket of rapid star birth appears in the lower right corner. This region of star formation was probably triggered by a gravitational interaction with an unseen companion galaxy. But star formation is present across the entire body of UGC 5340, and the relatively young stars are responsible for the galaxys blue-white colour. An image of this galaxy was already released back in 2014 (heic1421). This newly-processed image now also shows ultraviolet radiation Hubble captured from the galaxy.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1810d/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
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- ID
- heic1810d
- Subject Category
- C.5.2.2
- Subject Name
- DDO 68
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, and the LEGUS team
- Release Date
- 2018-05-17T19:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/heic1810d/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS, WFC3, WFC3, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue, Blue, Purple
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Ultraviolet
- Bandpass
- I, V, B, U, UV
- Central Wavelength
- 814, 606, 438, 336, 275
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 149.2047, 28.8185
- Reference Dimension
- 2696.0, 1926.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1187.27716716, 2008.34895266
- Scale
- -1.099233e-05, 1.099233e-05
- Rotation
- -117.47382405183
- 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
- heic1810d
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/heic1810d.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-06-01T12:51:04+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
