Distant view of a galactic crash NGC 4490 and NGC 4485 (ground-based image)
esahubble_heic1910b May 16th, 2019
Credit: NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)
This ground-based image shows the large galaxy NGC 4490 and the irregular galaxy NGC 4485 above the larger galaxy in the centre of the image it is interacting with. Both galaxies are connected with each other through a stream of material about 25 000 light-years long. The stream is made up of bright knots and huge pockets of gassy regions, as well as enormous regions of star formation in which young, massive, blue stars are born. Having already made their closest approach, NGC 4485 and NGC 4490 are now moving away from each other.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1910b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1910b
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.6
- Subject Name
- NGC 4485, NGC 4490
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, Digitized Sky Survey 2 (Acknowledgement: Davide De Martin)
- Release Date
- 2019-05-16T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic1910b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2, Digitized Sky Survey 2
- Instrument
- None, None, None
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- i, R, B
- Central Wavelength
- 797.5, 660, 467.5
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 187.639098999, 41.6716404616
- Reference Dimension
- 10416.0, 8244.0
- Reference Pixel
- 5208.0, 4122.0
- Scale
- -0.000280092853052, 0.000280092853052
- Rotation
- 1.159999999999999
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- ESA Office, Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Dr
- City
- Baltimore
- State/Province
- MD
- Postal Code
- 21218
- Country
- United States
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- heic1910b
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic1910b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2017-12-28T19:55:41+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
