Peculiar galaxy NGC 3256
esahubble_heic1811a May 31st, 2018
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
This image, taken with the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) and the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), both installed on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, shows the peculiar galaxy NGC 3256. The galaxy is about 100 million light-years from Earth and is the result of a past galactic merger, which created its distorted appearance. As such, NGC 3256 provides an ideal target to investigate starbursts that have been triggered by galaxy mergers. Another image of NGC 3256 was already released in 2008, as part of a collection of interacting galaxies, created for Hubbles 18th birthday.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1811a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1811a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- NGC 3256
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble, NASA
- Release Date
- 2018-05-31T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic1811a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFC3, WFC3, ACS, ACS, ACS, WFC3
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Red, Red, Blue, Green, Green
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H Alpha +[N II ], SII, I, V, V, H Alpha +[N II ]
- Central Wavelength
- 665, 673, 814, 555, 555, 665
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 156.970106147, -43.9031853498
- Reference Dimension
- 3948.0, 3978.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1974.0, 1989.0
- Scale
- -1.38873210434e-05, 1.38873210434e-05
- Rotation
- 95.19999999999996
- 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
- heic1811a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic1811a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2018-03-14T09:04:39+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
