Arp-Madore 2026-424
esahubble_heic1919a October 28th, 2019
Credit: NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and M. Durbin (University of Washington)
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captures two galaxies of equal size in a collision that appears to resemble a ghostly face. This observation was made on 19 June 2019 in visible light by the telescopes Advanced Camera for Surveys. Residing 704 million light-years from Earth, this system is catalogued as Arp-Madore 2026-424 (AM 2026-424) in the Arp-Madore Catalogue of Southern Peculiar Galaxies and Associations.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://esahubble.org/images/heic1919a/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Baltimore, MD, United States
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- heic1919a
- Subject Category
- B.5.1.7
- Subject Name
- ESO 285-19
- Credits
- NASA, ESA, J. Dalcanton, B.F. Williams, and M. Durbin (University of Washington)
- Release Date
- 2019-10-28T15:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://esahubble.org/images/heic1919a/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Good
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- ACS, ACS
- Color Assignment
- Cyan, Orange
- Band
- Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- V, I
- Central Wavelength
- 606, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- None, None
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 307.388829014, -42.5055326209
- Reference Dimension
- 1846.0, 2000.0
- Reference Pixel
- 923.0, 1000.0
- Scale
- -1.22819419936e-05, 1.22819419936e-05
- Rotation
- -0.65999999999999992
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- https://esahubble.org
- Name
- Space Telescope Science Institute Office of Public Outreach
- outreach@stsci.edu
- Telephone
- 410-338-4444
- 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
- heic1919a
- Resource URL
- http://esahubble.org/media/archives/images/original/heic1919a.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2021-04-14T15:31:51.730136
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
