A tiny galaxy with a big heart
esahubble_heic1911a June 13th, 2019
Credit: ESA/Hubble, NASA
Nestled within this field of bright foreground stars lies ESO 495-21, a tiny galaxy with a big heart. ESO 495-21 is just 3000 light-years across, a fraction of the size of the Milky Way, but that is not stopping the galaxy from furiously forming huge numbers of stars. There are also indicators for a supermassive black hole in its centre - an unusual component for a galaxy of its size.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1911a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1911a
- Subject Category
- C.5.1.6
- Subject Name
- ESO 495-21
- Credits
- ESA/Hubble, NASA
- Release Date
- 2019-06-13T16:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic1911a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- WFPC2, ACS, ACS, ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Orange, Red, Green, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- SII, I, I, V, V
- Central Wavelength
- 673, 814, 814, 606, 606
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 129.063004457, -26.4114112892
- Reference Dimension
- 3970.0, 2194.0
- Reference Pixel
- 1985.0, 1097.0
- Scale
- -1.38996111802e-05, 1.38996111802e-05
- Rotation
- 21.44
- 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
- heic1911a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic1911a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2017-06-09T18:55:35+02:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
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